[p. xv] We are following the example of Balzac, the master of French story-writers, in his writings, which are characterized by their humanism and all stage la comédie humaine.1
بمعنى أنّنا قد نتتبّع في قصصنا المقبلة حياة الأشخاص الذين صوّرنا صفحة من حياتهم في هذه القصص ، أو نأتي على صفحة أخرى من حياتهم ،
bi-maʕnà ʔanna-nā qad natatabbaʕu fī qiṣaṣi-nā ’l-muqbilaẗ ḥayāẗa ’l-ʔašḫāṣ allaḏīna ṣawwarnā ṣafaḥaẗin min ḥayāti-him fī hāḏihī ’l-qiṣaṣ, ʔaw naʔtī ʕalà ṣafḥaẗ ʔuḫrà min ḥayāti-him,
That means that in the following stories,2
we may trace the life of the characters whose lives we had described in some snapshots in these stories,3
or we present some other page of their lives,
