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In this essay, Hart explores the drama that El-Bisatie so skillfully hides beneath his seemingly simplistic text.
Mohamed El-Bisatie’s stories, such as his ‘‘A Conversation from the Third Floor,’’ are often described as paintings. This description aptly fits El-Bisatie, who likes to create scenes to which only the barest form of narration is applied. In other words, his narration is used to fill in the setting as a painter might use a brush to paint a picture. His sparse narrative is journalistic, in a sense, making El-Bisatie appear more as a reporter than a storyteller. His stories are told from what he sees, not from what he feels, and what the reader must do, in order to fully grasp...
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