"I'd Rather Not":Silent Writing in Gurnah's By the Sea
Abdulrazak Gurnah's sixth novel By the Sea tells the story of Saleh Omar who went to the UK for asylum and met his old friend Latif,which led to the memory of love and hatred between the two families.The work presents the anxiety and trauma behind the refugee status of the two protagonists through flashback,interspersing memories and changing narrative perspectives,while using the narrative strategy of silent narra-tion.The work forms a strong narrative tension between the wordless silence and the deep anxiety,through which it expresses the pursuit of memory,the criticism of colonialism and the real observation of the anxiety of refugee status.
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