The seven days of man
| Author | Egyptian writer Abdel Hakim Kassem |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
| Published | 1969 |
| Pages |
The Seven Days of Man [1](Arabic: أيام الانسان السبعة )is a novel by Egyptian writer Abdel Hakim Kassem. Issued by Al-Shuroouk House in 1969, it takes place in an Egyptian village, focusing on a side of life that has never been written about before – namely, the life of Dervish, those poor peasants who spend their day in the fields, and in the evening turn to "Al-Hadrah", where they offer eulogies after prayer and dream of the day they go to the birth of Mr. Ahmed al-Badawi in Tanta. The seven human days are a reference to a method of perception that we have neglected to meditate on for a long time. The novel entered the top 100 Arab novels.
Story
The Seven Human Days novel is about the child Abdul Aziz, who is the focus of everything around him throughout the life cycle in which he moves within a village family. His family belongs to a Sufi group within the village. If critics know, they recognize that the novel is the kind that critics of the novel called "The Novel of Genesis", a novel with special characteristics found in famous global novels such as "Emotional Upbringing" by the famous French writer Flaubert – a novel about a hero who falls in love for the first time, moving between the world of children and the world of adolescence, which ends only at the point of manhood or youth completion.
Abdelmohsen Badr wrote about Abdelhakim Kassem's novel in his book Novelist and Earth, in which he studied Zainab for its structure and "The Earth" and "The Farmer" of Sharqaoui, and concluded with the novel "The Seven Days of Man". He drew attention to the novelist's relationship with the village and how a generation differed from a generation in making the village a narrative theme. This focus seems to have made following critics turn to this aspect, including his pupil, Dr. Mohamed Badawi, who was busy with the impact of socio-economic change on the narrative. Studies then proceeded in this direction, in which Mohamed Badawi went on to describe the novel as being about a Sufi group of marginalized people in the village. If memory does not betray me, this understanding seems to have led a novelist to ask whether the novel revolves around the village? The novel revolves around the village, but from a specific perspective – the perspective of the writer writing about his childhood and upbringing and opening his awareness of the world within a village, and his religious consciousness growing through the group that his father was leading.[2]
The place and time of the novel
Qasem manipulates the time element of the novel, transporting us with leaps in life to see the evolution and changing perspectives of the world around Abdelaziz. We see him in his childhood, his fascination with the weekly male sessions performed by his father and friends, and we note the resonance of tolerance and popular religion printed on his soul and his longing for the annual trip to the birth of Mr. Al-Badawi. This comes to a great strength, resembling his father, like the highest.
The language of the novel
The language of the novel reflects the contradictions of the rural environment. Like the young land, which is hardly controlled by man, the vocabulary is harsh and rough. Just as the beauty of the rural environment comes from green lands and blue skies, the expressions come in a beautiful, harmonious window of insight, revealing feelings, high with magnetism beyond the realm of the senses.[3]
References
- ↑ "ايام الانسان السبعة - Search". www.bing.com. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ↑ "أيام الإنسان السبعة by عبد الحكيم قاسم — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists". web.archive.org. 2017-05-18. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ↑ "«أيام الإنسان السبعة»: صورة على وشك التلاشي". إضاءات (in العربية). 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
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