The Changing Content in the Short Stories of Zakariyya Tamir

Abstract

The development of the literary products of Zakariyya Tamir is framed within
modernism. The writer does not move from one literary school to another. Rather,
he remains within the same narrative trend he started since his first story at the late
fifties. The development of the content of his stories, however, is achieved through
withdrawing from universal concerns, which dominated the stories of the late fifties
and sixties, to focus on the worries of the Arab and Syrian man in particular2
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Zakariyya Tamir’s first story collection: The Neighing of the White Horse, came
out in 1960, while his second story collection: Spring in the Ashes, came out in
1963. In 1970, after a seven-year interval, he presented his readers with a new
collection entitled: The Thunder, which testifies to a remarkable development in his