Sugar Street (Novl)
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| Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Language | Arabic |
| Series | Cairo Trilogy |
| Publisher | Dar Al-Shroq |
Publication date | 2000, January, 1 |
| Pages |
Sugar Street (Novel),(Arabic: السكرية)[1], it was written by the famous Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and it was the third part of Naguib’s trilogy, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Al-Sokaria is the name of a neighborhood in Cairo, and it was the place where the events of the novel take place, the events of this part begin after the end of the events of the previous episode with eight, full story in 1934, and ends in 1943.
Story Events:[edit]
This part begins with sad previous beginning. The two sons of Aisha’s and her husband died due to typhoid. Aisha, beautiful woman, changes to a pale-skinned woman, with sunken eyes, a dull look, and she start smokes greedily, and drinks coffee incessantly, leaving with her one and only her sixteen-year-old daughter, Naima. In this part, the heroes of the story will change, they will become a grown up persons and each of them has their own whims and desires. In this show also, as I did in the presentation of the novel (The Palace of Longing) (Original title: Qasr Al-shawq), I will review the events through the new heroes, but we still have the renewed old hero, “Kamal”, who will step aside a little this time to share the championship with his sister and brother.[2]
- Ad Al-monem: he is the eldest son of Khadija, Mr.Ahmed Abd Algawad’s daughter. Abdel Moneim gets a baccalaureate degree from the literary section, he joined the law college. And from the beginning of this section, we see that Abdel Moneim chose the path of sincere faith. He do his prayer on time, keen on reading the holy Qur’an, he even joined the Muslim Brotherhood and grew his beard. Despite this, Abdel Moneim fell in love with his neighbor, a fourteen years old girl, as they met in the dark and he forgot all the religious lessons he used to hear. But every time he felt a great sadness that made him shed tears of remorse on the prayer rug that happened every time after meeting her, and prayed to God to expel the demon of seduction from him. The writer is creative in describing the conflict that rages in the soul of Abdel Moneim, as every time he intends to repent and then weaken, until he finally decides to repent that is irreversible. And he decided to tell the girl, ignoring her tears, and gives her honest advice to never meet a young man in the dark. After that, and to complete his repentance, Abdel Moneim decides to marry, and despite the surprise shown by his parents because of his young age, he insists on his opinion, and indeed Abdel Moneim marries Naima's daughter His aunt, Aisha, became pregnant quickly, but she and the fetus died during labor. Four years later, Abdel Moneim decides on a generous engagement to his cousin Yassin, and is faced with a storm by his mother, as only four months have passed since the death of his grandfather, Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad, but his father supports him. Karima attends a silent wedding to her husband's house without the participation of her grandmother and aunt. They live on the second floor in the house of Abdel Moneim's father. After that, Abdel Moneim's activity continues with the Muslim Brotherhood, so he believes with all his heart in its principles, and appoints a legal advisor to the (Aesthetic) Division, and begins holding meetings for the group on the floor of his residence, but soon his case is revealed, The police raid his house and arrest him, despite all of Khadija's pleas to the sheriff to leave her son alone. Abdel Moneim is taken to a damp cell, and he wonders with burning: Is it all my fault that I worship God?![3]
- Ahmed: In complete contrast to Abdel Moneim, Ahmed embraces the communist ideology at the end of the school stage. Although his mother raised him to pray since he was young, he decides to stop performing it when he reaches fifteen. While studying at the Faculty of Arts, he begins publishing articles in the magazine "The New Man", which is a socialist magazine par excellence. He gets to know Alawia Sabri, a student in the same college, and they befriend for a while, then he opens up to her with his desire to marry. After procrastination on her part, and insistence on his part, she surprises him with her statement that she wants to marry a rich man, who guarantees her to maintain her standard of living, and thus turns the page (Alawiya Sabri) of his life. After his graduation, Ahmed decides to work in journalism, Despite the opposition of his parents, the editor-in-chief of Al-Insan Al-Jadeed magazine promises him to appoint him as a translator first for training and then as an editor. In his new job, he meets Sawsan Hammad, the magazine's editor. Despite her limited beauty, her excessive seriousness and her immersion in politics, and despite her being socially inferior to him, in addition to being years older than him, she succeeds in winning his love and getting married, despite his mother raising a storm of protest, and they live on the first floor in the same house as his father. Like his brother Abdel Moneim. Ahmed and Sawsan begin to hold meetings in the first floor, albeit with a limited number of friends, most of them from the journalistic environment, including the editor-in-chief of the magazine (The New Man), where theoretical discussions take place among them, they study Marxism, and they plan to eliminate religion. It is interesting that two groups planning to eliminate each other are sitting in the same house, separated only by the ceiling!! However, Ahmed ends up being arrested with his brother Abdel Moneim equally, and they are placed in the same cell with some students, thieves and drunks. This arrest reveals to Ahmed a dangerous matter that he had not been aware of before. He had spent his life defending the people and demanding the rights of the toiling class, but as soon as he met the people in a dungeon, he found himself repulsed by their interactions and disgusted by their contact!! He finds himself in prison, has begun to review his accounts and think about the words of the warden who advised him to take care of his family.
- Radwan: He is Yassin’s son from his ex-wife Zainab. He was raised for a while by his grandfather “Muhammad Effat”, then as soon as Yassin married Zanouba, he brought his son back to live with him. But Zanouba - although she never mistreated Radwan - she also did not love him, and neither did he. And Zanouba secretly welcomed everything that kept him away from her home, even for a while. Sometimes he would sleep with his mother, or with his grandfather, or with his friend “Helmy Ezzat”. Radwan entered the Faculty of Law with his cousin Abdel Moneim, but he was never encouraged to make his aunt or her children friends. Unfortunately, his friend Helmy drags him to the path of perversion, and introduces him to an old gay man with an important position called “Abdul Rahim Issa”, so the latter takes care of him and hires him after graduating as a secretary to the minister.
- Kamal: In this part of the trilogy, Kamal's suffering, confusion, and confusion are evident. He does not know who he is? What does he want? What is the truth? What values? What is happiness? Which philosophy does he belong to? Why does he shake his head suspiciously after he finishes studying every philosophical doctrine? Why is he running away from marriage even though he has reached the age of twenty-eight, and even though he has become an English language teacher at Al-Silahdar Primary School? In his repeated meetings with his friend Ismail Latif, he would sometimes reveal his confusion, but he did not find a convincing answer from Ismail, who was married and happy with his life with his wife and children, so he continued to spend his nights among the wine and prostitutes. Then in one of their meetings, Ismail tells him that the Shaddad family, to which his ex-girlfriend Aida belongs, has ended, as the father went bankrupt and committed suicide. The palace was sold and the family moved to live in a modest apartment in Abbasiya. Kamal continues to publish his philosophical articles in the magazine (Al-Fikr), whose floor and shabby furniture remind him of the status of thought in his country. In the magazine, he gets acquainted with (Riyad Qaldas), the translator at the Ministry of Education, who publishes short stories in the magazine, and a close friendship develops between them that compensated him for the loss of his friend Hussein Shaddad, Aida's brother, who emigrated to France. Several years later - these years during which his father died - he meets Coincidence (in the role). And (Badur) is the younger sister of Aida, who seventeen years ago was a child whom Kamal would sit on his knees when he visited her brother. He starts following her and attends lectures at the university as a "listening", arguing that he is doing research that calls for following up on these lectures. Then he visits the neighborhood in which she lives daily, and finds her sitting on the balcony and they smile each other. Obsessions return to play with Kamal's head.. Will he propose to Bodour? She will not reject him as her sister rejected him before. They are now poor.. She seems responsive despite the age difference. But what frightened him the most was that he considered marriage a prison, and that if he remarried, he would have nothing but the bitter struggle for livelihood to secure the life of the family and children, and he would pile on the preoccupations and he could not stand this life. She waits for him on the balcony once in her out clothes, then as soon as they exchange the usual smile, she turns to him straight, and they walk side by side as if to give him the last chance to advance. But Kamal hesitates, and justifies his hesitation to himself that the one you seek is not the girl of his dreams, and they separate without speaking. After that, exciting coincidences follow in Kamal's life..on time, he comes across a young man's arm, and the finger of her right hand is adorned with a golden ring..then he meets his friend Hussein Shaddad, who he hasn't seen for seventeen years..the latter carries amazing news about Aida.. Kamal knows that she is She was divorced from her husband, then remarried to a married man, and then died.
References[edit]
- ↑ نور, مكتبة. "تحميل كتاب السكرية رواية نجيب محفوظ PDF". www.noor-book.com (in العربية). Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ↑ "Nwf.com: السكرية: نجيب محفوظ: ثلاثية نجيب : كتب". www.neelwafurat.com. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ↑ "رواية السكرية - نجيب محفوظ". موسوعة أخضر للكتب (in العربية). 2020-03-13. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
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