Utopiaa (novel)

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Utopia is a social novel by the Egyptian writer Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, which was published in 2008 and is considered his first novel to be published outside the modern Arab institution.

Novel events[edit]

The novel takes place in the year 2023, when Egypt has turned into two layers, the first of which is extremely rich and luxurious, which is (Utopia), the city surrounded by a wall and guarded by Marines, which is located on the northern coast, and the second is extreme poverty and lives in slums and they fight for food. The novel tells the story of a rich young man from Utopia who wants to He entertains and takes an adventure to break the boredom and monotony of life, which is hunting a poor human being from the residents of Shubra and playing with him with his friends to have fun, then killing him and keeping part of his body as a matter of pride.

In some citizens, Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq also explicitly relies on scientific statistics and reports, such as a report by Dr. Ahmed Okasha on addiction in Egypt and a press report in the Dialogue Forum for Development and Human Rights on crimes of violence against women, as well as on the Masrawy website as one of the Internet sites.

The poet Abd al-Rahman al-Abnoudi, with his political and patriotic poems, appears on the pages of the novel.

City of Utopia

The name Utopia is a term describing a utopian state where everything is perfect for humans and all the values ​​of justice and equality are available and all evils such as poverty, misery and diseases do not exist This description and many beautiful things, and the origin of the word was in the book Utopia published in 1516 by Thomas More and adopted in the ideas of His utopia on Plato's ideas in the book The Republic. As for the city of Utopia Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq, it is the city of the rich only, guarded by the American Marines. It has its own newspaper, but there are general newspapers that it cannot read (p. 27), and the mother is still the mother.. You cannot get rid of her (p. 27) and Phlogstein describes a new type of drug for us. It is completely different from the kidneys, banjo, cricket pills and hashish, and the monopoly of the people of Utopia on everything, and the protagonist of the novel boasts of his father, who can not take aspirin anywhere in Egypt except by means of it (the novel, p. They are the best friends who live in utopia and the Gulf countries have run out of oil and expelled the Egyptian labor and the state has exempted itself from any services it provides and has allocated everything

This is how two societies will be, one owns everything and the other does not own anything (the novel, p. 107). This other is the real Egypt that will not find food, housing or treatment. The metro and its remnants of life will be signs of mobile networks that have stopped working and electricity that has stopped, and the best thing in Egypt will be that The existence of stray or non-stray dogs, as the people / the poor / the gentiles, as the novel knows them, will hunt them for food, and this is the best food for them, and the books you will find in the garbage, as they are things that are no longer sold (p. 111).

The language is a mixture between Arabic and Egyptian colloquial and at times the rude colloquial used by the popular classes as decadence, and also the language is not verbal but also a physical language of expressions

Here you are, you dogs. Your situation has gone downhill until you are eating dogs!.. I have warned you a thousand times.. I have told you the theories of Malthus and Jamal Hamdan and the prophecies of Orwell and H.G. Wells.. but every time you get high with hashish and cheap wine and fall asleep

Now I am oscillating between sadness for your condition, which is mine, and gloating about you, because only now you know.. My anger against you is like the anger of the prophets of the Old Testament against their people. This was his last orgasm.. I curse you idiots. I curse you, but what frightened me is that they don't care at all.. They don't care at all..

They're looking for the next woman, the next roll, the next meal, and they don't know where they are

—The back cover of Utopia

Main characters

The young Utopian: He introduced himself as Alaa, and he is the son of (Murad Bey), a wealthy young man who lives in Utopia and is tired of a life of wealth.

Grimnal: Alaa's girlfriend who leaves Utopia with him

Jaber: The poor educated young man who shelters Alaa and Grimnal in his house

Safiya: Jaber's sister

The novel, serialized in 6 parts, was published in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Dustour in 2006, but more events were added to the novel. This novel was published in Merritt House in 2008, and an English translation of the novel will be issued by Bloomsbury House

External links

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Sources

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