Ālmā: Persiska (Farsi) 1401

Reading the first few lines of "Alma" is enough to understand that we are dealing with a writer who has the essence of writing; Someone who knows how to portray and without exaggeration can throw us into the space of his story with a beginning like this. "I am sitting in the dark half of the cafe behind the square single table attached to the wall. As usual, Juan is sitting in the middle of the cafe on a Polish chair with that strange cape and hat, hugging his guitar and running his elongated fingers along the strings. A slight wind howls outside and shakes the loose glass of the window next to me. From time to time, a car passes by and shines a beam of light on the street floor. My heart wants a quiet melody..." Meysham Nabi delicately plays with all the reader's senses without pretentious tricks and uses light, sound, and image to finally convey the brevity of his story. This relatively refined language of the author, in addition to the thinness of imagination that is suitable for the first-person female narrator, has caused the reader's desire to continue reading, as well as raising his expectations from this novel. "While spinning, I unplug my body, put my headphones and mp3 on the table, go into the bedroom and collapse my heavy body on the bed. I stare at the ceiling a little absent-mindedly. I turn on the lampshade. As always, large shadows appear quietly and quietly on the ceiling and walls and cover my small room from east to west. The war between light and darkness resumes. Gilly, I'll take out my little Jasuichi pendant doll from my bag and put it next to the lamp..." (Page 13) "Alma" is a narrative of the life or a slice of the life of a young girl who is a university lecturer and faces mental and objective conflicts; On the one hand, he is on the verge of marriage, and on the other hand, he is struggling with work and everyday problems, and all of this is tied to his hometown and difficult past with a sense of nostalgia. As we progress in the story, we realize that as much as Nabi acts powerfully in describing and creating the atmosphere of the story, unfortunately, he is incapable of expanding it; It's as if the story is made up of disjointed parts that are connected by a faint thread. In the continuation of the story, the author wanders from one island to another island like a captain without a plan, without worrying that a group of singers are passengers on this ship, sometimes he tells stories about the problems of the workshop, sometimes about students protests, being suspended from work and part of his ambiguous childhood life. The further one goes in this valley, the more visible this rupture becomes, and instead of unraveling a knot, stories are told that the reader is not very concerned about discovering. Some characters pass like a shadow on the wall of the narrative and disappear, and some others pass like a breeze through the leaves and move nothing but rustling. "Alma" had the capacity to draw the reader in with a coherent and calculated plan in the form of a bulky novel, but as if due to boredom without proper contexts and payment due to patience, its scroll is dismantled at once and the completion of the adventures just like the end of the television series, makes everyone happy in a few sentences of the ending; Arman, the disillusioned musician, quits international orchestras, the tumultuous teacher is accused of moral corruption, and the oppressor woman dies forgiven. In this work, Maysam Nabi appeared like a powerful director who portrays a weak script; While he has shown that he is a writer by nature with his abilities in "Alma"; A writer who overcomes his temptations in favor of novel structure will be able to create lasting novels.