Special Interview

He is a novelist, but he leans toward the short story (For me, my greater inclination is toward the short story more than the novel, and the reason is that I can capture its aesthetics quickly, and I can also be its critic before anyone else). These are not just the convictions of the novelist Nasser Al-Jassem. On the other hand, he believes that narrative is a written construction that requires examining and evaluating the idea and cannot be completed except through contemplation. The lack of any of these elements in a narrative work makes it fail, and this is what leads to the emergence of novels that should have worn the cloak of the short story and vice versa. In this meeting, we reveal some of Al-Jassem's convictions between the novel and the short story...