《贝鲁特75》是叙利亚著名女作家嘉黛·萨曼的第一部长篇小说。作品预言了黎巴嫩内战的爆发,是作家长期从事短篇小说创作后的结晶,也是其小说叙事逐渐走向成熟的标志,及对身份认同重新整理和界定的分水岭,是她正视过去、反省自我的开始,也是她逐渐开始将个人命运与国家命运结合、明确主体意识并试图建构身份认同之路的第一步。
Beirut 75 is the first novel written by the famous Syrian female writer Ghadah Al-Samman. This novel predicted the Lebanon Civil War. It combines experiences which the writer has acquired over a long period of creative work on short stories,it is regarded as the symbol of maturity of Ghadah’s narrative skills on fiction and the defining moment when she re-understood and re-defined her identity. Thus,this novel was the start of her facing up to the past and reflecting upon the self. Also,it was the first place she made a bond between her individual fate and the national destiny,and to realize her subject consciousness in order to try to make a step in the direction of identity reconstruction.