Latin Quarter (novel)
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| Author | Suhayl Idris |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1953 |
| Pages | |
| Awards | It is considered one of the best 100 Arab novels. |
Latin Quarter is a novel by the Lebanese writer Suhayl Idris. It is considered one of the best 100 Arab novels of all time. This narrative can be incorporated into the cultural narrative that depicts the difficult relationship between the East and the West, as well as the North and the South, that is, the cultural narrative that depicts the relationship between the ego and the other or the cultural encounter between the East with its customs, religions and spiritual tribulations and the West with its material, scientific and technological attributes.This ego-other relationship can be beneficial, based on communication, cohabitation, dialogue, complementarity, fraternity, and respect, or it can be adversarial, based on aggression, hatred, and conflict. Latin Quarter is one of these civilizational novels that complicates a cultural comparison between East and West. It can also be considered a biography of the author Dr. Suhayl Idris, as the events of the novel are linked to the writer's scientific, social, cultural, and literary identity... It can be compared to “Awrak” by Abdallah Laroui and “Al-Ayam” by Taha Hussein and “Hayyati” by Ahmad Amin biographies... As long as it concentrates on the scientific and cultural grant, the hero's scientific evidence, the books he read, and his affair, culture and humanity. This is not the only civilizational narrative, there are other novels that have evolved during the nineteenth century with the shock of colonialism and the thinkers and creators of that big fundamental civilizational question: Why has the West developed while the East has laggardly?[1]
Title[edit]
The novel's title, Latin Quarter, is a classic title written in descriptive and nominal composition, describing the fictional experience as a whole. The title alludes to the novel's main events' spatial component. Latin Quarter is a quarter of international students who travel to France to study and pursue postgraduate studies in order to obtain a bachelor's degree or a doctorate in Paris. Additionally, this place hosts students, and this scientific space is located next to the Sorbonne University for expats, which includes hotels and restaurants. It turns into political, social, and intellectual debate clubs, as well as a diverse humanitarian and civilizational forum for the diversity of students' linguistic and doctrinal experiences, a romantic and gracious space that provides gender relations and a clear picture of the East-West relationship.
Story[edit]
This novel depicts the relationship between East and West through women as the fundamental touchstone of this relationship and the human symbol that will judge this cultural connection between ego and other.The Latin Quarter's hero is the ego or the east, and Janine Montro is a symbol of the other or the West. So, what would be the nature of the relationship between these two main characters in the novel? Will it be a positive or negative relationship? What is the philosophical perspective of this relationship and what is its foundation?
Criticism[edit]
There are several studies that have approached Latin Quarter novel. There are only those who summarize the novel as Khalida Saeed did in her book “The Dynamic of Creativity” P13. There are those who technically approached it like the Jordanian Dr. Ibrahim Al-Saafin "The Development of the Modern Arab Novel in the Levant". And there are who judged her morally like: ʿīsā Nārīand, Redwan Al-Shahal, who condemned the hero as "despicable and impertinent who committed an immoral act by abandoning the girl who gave birth from him, and concluded that the author, like his hero, is despicable and impertinent" 14. Besides, we find critical studies that praised this novel and demonstrated its artistic and aesthetic splendor like: Najuib Mahfouz, Mikhail Naimy, Youssef Sharouny, Ahmad Kamal Zaki, Shakir Mustafa and Abdullah Abdel Daem.[2]
Publication[edit]
This novel was published by the Dar-Al Adab Al-Beirutiya,which publishes the Journal of Well-Known Literature, which was and continues to be a platform for modernity, renewal, and pioneering. This house has made it possible to print many creative works that have been well received by Arabs and globally and have achieved great success. Those who contemplate this novel will see that it has reached more than eleven editions. This indicates that it has a great popularity. Thousands and thousands of copies have been printed "more than 700,000 copies." This, if anything, demonstrates how good and well-known this novel is in the Arab world, as well as the media and scholarly attention it has received.
References[edit]
- ↑ "غود ريدز- رواية الحي اللاتيني".
- ↑ "قراءة في رواية سهيل إدريس" الحي اللاتيني" - منتديات الشروق أونلاين". montada.echoroukonline.com. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
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