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Muhammad al-Qurmuti is one of the most eminent of Omani writers. He was
born in al-Buraymi in 1955. He is the author of a single volume of short stories, entitled
Sa’at ar-rahil al-multahiba, which was published in Muscat in 1988. The unequivocally
innovative and surrealist short stories that are contained in the volume are filled with
the spirit of decadence and catastrophism. And here also the echoes of the philosophy
of Schopenhauer, Bergson and Nietzsche are strong. This collection is an
excellent example of how well western philosophy, thought and art has acclimatized to
the Arab world. Muhammad al-Qurmuti presents the reader with an ‘exciting hour
of travel’ to the land of dreams, desires, illusions, and hallucinations, to a world in which
the possible will within a second cease to exist.