Download or read book The Giant of the Upper Floors written by Haima Al-Mufti and published by E-Kutub Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al-Mufti's stories embody a unique technique; they are characterized by a novel narrative, based on a fast-moving sequence of words and phrases, that, most importantly, almost always falls within a formulaic structure that is both evocative and energetic. Its brevity is such that it captures the essence of established genres, leaving the reader with the sense of having consumed a novel, much less the fragments of a narrative. This narrative technique is completely different to that used in writing a novel or a short story. And sadly, it hasn't received its fair share of study. I call on critics to study it carefully so as to lay down the principles underlying the narrative technique of this genre of fiction.