Your Love is Maddening
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Your love is Maddening (Arabic: حبك درباني) is a novel written by a Tunisian novelist Bashir Khrayyef who is considered the founder of the Tunisian novel[1]. The novel was published in 1980 by the Painting Arts Company and was published by chapters in the Tunisian Journal "Al-fikr"[2].
Plot[edit]
| Author | Bashir Khrayyef |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Novel |
Publication date | 1980 |
| Pages | |
| Text | Your Love is Maddening at Wikisource |
The novel revolves around complex love relationships between the characters of the novel, the protagonist "Saleem al-Barji", a young man who works in an artistic space after escaping from the Zaytuna mosque, develops feelings for the heroine "Fawzia Naim", a divorced woman who marries an elderly man (known as Sheikh), he made her an "actress" after being a prostitute. Fawzia falls in love with one of her old clients, "Rabeh". Saleem begins to be insanely obsessed with Fawzia despite him being aware of her past. Sheikh "Ismail" Fawzia's husband, who is the "head of the theatre band" and its heroic actors "Saleem Al-Burji" and "Fawzia Naim", bringing all three of them in a complex love relationships.[3][4]
In this novel, Bashir Khrayyef depicts the lives of simple people in Tunis, where he narrates a bankrupt and wretched society in an elegant manner and in
criticism[edit]
In this novel, Bashir Khrayyef was subjected to many attacks from critics about his use of numerous slang words in his description and dialogues, as in the title of this novel "Your Love is Maddening" which is (Your love is driving me crazy), and According to Al-Arab newspaper, Bashir Khrayyef replied "The characters of Al-Mas'adi are abstract figures who can speak as Arabs at the time of Al-jahiz, Al-Tawhidi, and Ibn al-Muqaffa... My characters are people I know and they know me... I sit them daily, and with them I go to the market, to the bathroom... and I like them to speak in my stories and in my novels just as how they speak in the streets, in the cafes, in the markets".[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ "البشير خريف مؤسس الرواية التونسية – ميم | مجلة المرأة العربية". web.archive.org. 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ "Al-Fikr Journal". Al-Fikr.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "مائويّة الأديب البشير خريّف (1917 - 1983): إِنّ مــن القَــصـــص لَـسِـحْـرًا". web.archive.org. 2021-06-19. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
- ↑ Khrayyef, Bashir (1980). "Your Love is Maddening" (Ḥubbak darbānī). Search this book on
- ↑ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). web.archive.org. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
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