How is a story born from everyday events, memories, and travels?

According to Khabaronline, the book ‘Behind the Scenes of Writing’ is a fictional narrative about the authorship of 9 well-known fictional works by Ebrahim Hasan Beigi. In this book, he provides an unveiled account of how he discovered subjects for writing each work, its authorship, publication, and his feedback on the release of these works.

A notable point about this narrative is the author’s critical view of himself within it. Although Hasan Beigi does not express regret about writing any of these 9 novels in this work, he speaks like a critic about his failures in bringing a work to fruition and presenting it in various formats, even in international markets. The book also provides an instructive narrative about methods of discovering subjects, developing plot, character growth, and so on, in the form of documented narratives. In this regard, he writes in a part of the book’s introduction: ‘The mental world of writers is sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly. Sometimes soft and smooth, and sometimes rough and rocky. Sometimes one can travel and enjoy being in it. Sometimes it is a war-torn and crisis-ridden city.’

This book also comes with an introduction by Mohammad Reza Bayrami, a contemporary author. In a part of it, he writes: ‘In the West, there is a tradition called confession, and in the East, a tradition called concealment. Both have religious significance and are respected in their own place. However, the Eastern tradition has led our artists to speak less about themselves. We might find them best in writings of this kind, and for this reason, notes of this kind are valuable.’

The book “Behind the Scenes of Writing” has been published by Tadai Book Publishing in 132 pages for 265,000 Tomans.