Sonata for Tishreen

Sonata for Tishreen

Author	Osama Anwar Okasha
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Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Al-Ain publishing house
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"Sonata for Tishreen" (Arabic: سوناتا لتشرين) is a novel written by Osama Anwar Okasha.

In this novel, the writer overlooked his relationship with the Nasserite era, which he liked and confidently entered the era of beasts, led media and the association of power with its interests, the era of the free word in the form of the corrupted subject.

The great writer recently begins his novel by asking - in the words of its hero, journalist Salah Kamel - "Why do the right things come at the wrong time? … Why do wishes would come true after it is too late?" During his despair, hope flips with his wounds; His life is invaded again and after ten years his former student at the Faculty of Information, who insists on knowing the secret of his staying away from the spotlight, and his resignation at the height of his journalistic glory. Kamel realizes that his student's pursuit of him was nothing but a scoop.

The writer resorted to the technique of memoirs so that his novel does not fall into declarative and direct speech and came in the form of an audio recording on two tapes, with the pairing between two eras. The narration and flashback/declarations, without forgetting to show love to his adored city of Alexandria, which the hero chose intentionally as an exile for him.

The language of the novel is multi-level, between ordinary, poetic, and close to the script, which is based on visual imagination. There is a remarkable artistic ability to break the reader’s expectations, and surprise him at every moment with what he cannot expect from events... as in most of his works, where the strands of love, politics, intrigue, dreams, and breaks are interconnected, in an interesting police-style, with a deep sense that his characters are blood and flesh, and not just Paper Objects Created by Fiction.

Introduction to the Author

Osama Anwar Okasha (July 27, 1941-May 28, 2010) was an Egyptian writer of novels, serials, films, and plays. He is one of the most important authors in Egyptian and Arab drama, and his television works are considered the most important and most followed in Egypt and the Arab world. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the Department of psychological and social studies at Ain Shams University in 1962. After graduating, he worked as a social worker in a juvenile welfare institution and then worked as a teacher in a school in Assiut Governorate from 1963 to 1964. Then he moved to work in the public relations department at the Kafr el-Sheikh governorate34 court from 1964 to 1966. He then moved to work as a social worker in youth welfare at Al-Azhar University from 1966 to 1982, when he resigned to devote himself to writing and composing.

Author's Introduction

The writings of Osama Anwar Okasha were associated with writing television dramas for thirty years (1977-2008), and despite this, he never forgot his connection to the land of true beginnings; Novel and story literature. Osama Anwar Okasha says that he had not heard of visual drama before the sixties of the twentieth century, “We were surprised that there is a new literary and artistic genre that can bridge the gap that was dug between literature written for reading and the recipient. It is the illiteracy gap that visual drama was able to bridge to become a living kind of smooth literature that easily reaches the ethics of every Egyptian by overcoming the obstacles of illiteracy and the complexities of spoken language, whether it is formal or colloquial...” Despite the writer’s drift to writing for television, it is the attractiveness of drama and its superior ability to attract the largest human support. However, the writer did not forget his primary starting point, "I remained attaching to the land that witnessed the beginning of my talent... and I was keen to keep my first connection with my origins of fiction and stories... where the writer exercises his complete freedom..." (Sonata for Tishreen) came to be the novel he presents. The writer asked his readers: “Will my readers forgive me for my absence and my shortage of production? Or do you see them asking me something of an excuse? Or will they postpone judgment on me until they find out the best of my writing?”

The Story

“Why do the right things come at the wrong time. And why would wishes come true too late?”

"Sonata for Tishreen," tells the story of the journalist Salah Kamel, who makes Alexandria an exile for him, and in it, he meets an old friend of his, who convinces him to return to his previous journalistic life, which was eliminated by an intentional case against him, and thus his friend encourages him to return to his previous life; He is offered to work as a supervisor on the “Literature and Culture” supplement in the magazine he heads. Salah Kamel accepted his friend's offer to fulfill the magazine with a letter from time to time in which he covers artistic and literary activities in Alexandria, analyses them, and sheds light on them. Thus, our hero begins his first job assignment by going to a literary conference in a hotel in Alexandria to write an article about it. “It was a kind indication for which I was grateful and attributed it to the desire of his old friend, A.A., to attract him again to the world of the living!” As for those wishes that come true too late, they are related to his meeting with a thirty-year-old girl who will have feelings of love and appreciation, but he later discovers that she was after him for a journalist scoop. The meeting between them began at this conference, where she went to him and told him that she was one of his students in that course that he was assigned to train from abroad ten years ago or more. The girl started asking him some questions, and the first question she would ask him was, “Why did you leave Cairo and retire?” She continued her question to him about the reason for his sudden disappearance from the world of journalism despite his shinning in the world of journalism and his assumption of the editor-in-chief of the magazine in which he was working. His only response to her questions was that he was trained to forget this old story and that he actually succeeded in this, "I do not want to spoil my success by returning to heal the wounds that have healed... and to remember sufferings that I do not see myself able to go through, even by telling and narrating!"

What has been said about them

Tishreen’s Sonata novel presents the spirit of the journalistic drama, represented by the determination of a writer equipped with the confidence and intelligence and the strong desire to enter the dominations of corruption, in a society in which money gets attached to power, and businessmen’s domains have heightened, so an unequal conflict erupts between a journalist who aims to build his professional glory by exposing the facts of corruption and chasing its phenomena."

“The title of the novel is a surprising title for the average reader, for the word sonata means (song) and the word for Tishreen (an Arabic expression) meaning the month of autumn. This poetic fondness for Osama is expressed in poetic similes and metaphors. Critic Salah Fadel notes the drama Mr. Osama Anwar Okasha's love for journalism and its world divided between two different paths when the world of the journalist (the brave or the cowardly) strikes with the world of the businessman. It seems that this is an important issue for Osama, as in (The Summer Glow) and then in the novel which is the topic of the conference (Sonata for Tishreen).

“Osama Anwar Okasha is a writer with exceptional talent. He is the Nobel maker in Arab drama. The great writer Osama Anwar Okasha replies to some of the explanations he wanted to make. If I had not called it (Sonata for Tishreen), I would have called it (The Tale of a Disappointed Man). He explains this by saying that in the last 3 chapters of the novel I summarized the world of disappointment that the man felt. His history is full of sadness, failure, despair, and October symbolizes autumn. the age. He continued, "Any hopes during this period are the hopes of living, and if he does not achieve anything, his ambitions are attacked by enemies not in the size of his strength, then he is defeated and expatriate himself."

References

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