A man named desire

Confessions of Don Juan

Author's name: Aisha Al-Basri

A Man Called Desire: Confessions of a Don Juan by Aisha Al-Basri... I am Juan Rodrigo Umayya, descendant of the Don Juans of human literature, an innocent wolf. I try to build glory with the sighs of women, a small eternity for my memory. If women seek to judge me, I am innocent of their blood. I did not kill a woman through abandonment and neglect. I am only a man afflicted with amnesia. I kill my women with forgetfulness... Most of the writers who relied on psychoanalysis to construct my literary character, relying on the great psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, when they seated me on the analysis couch, found in the end nothing but their repressed selves, and their personalities hidden behind strict social and religious laws. For all these reasons, I decided to introduce myself... I do not want biased and pitying interpretations that see me as a man victim of his lust. And to say that the Don Juan is afflicted with a manhood that is in doubt