A brief overview of the novel Chronic Longing The novel centers around Salah, a character who is characterized by a captivating and different scent, and he has a strong attachment to his mother that reaches the stage of holiness in respect, love, and attachment. This appears in his conversation with her as he sits near her grave, which he returns to to celebrate her birthday, there, and distributes sweets to the graves in a surreal way. Symbolism. The first chapters talk about Salah, the adventurous and loving child who travels long kilometers to see a girl who lives on top of a mountain. He has not heard her talk or met her, but he loves her. He talks about his adventure with his friend Mustafa when they went to join the revolution to fight their enemy. She talks about Salah, who works at the newspaper and then leaves because he reaches retirement age. Najat, the director of personnel affairs at the newspaper, talks about this aspect, as does the security man who asks him to cooperate with him. Then the novel talks about Salah through the character of the cemetery guard, Fawzi, as well as through a woman named Salma. They both hear him talking to his dead mother, and then Amira, his childhood sweetheart, talks about him, who grows up, gets married, divorces, and meets him again. There is the character of Colonel Zahra, who summons him because of his attempts to transport his deceased mother and all the dead in the neighborhood to their homes due to being threatened. Salah organizes a reverse funeral that transports the dead from their graves to their homes, which is a symbolic funeral more than a real one, in order to preserve their memory as displaced people. It later becomes clear that Colonel Zahra is the same girl that Salah loved in high school. There is the character of Saber, who is the other side of Salah, who sometimes judges him and reveals some truths at other times. The novel restores consideration to man's relationship with his natural mother, his mother, the earth, and his mother, the cause, and raises the alarm of the disappearance of the memory of the displaced due to the practices of extremists who want to burn and plow the cemetery. Technically, the novel follows the short story approach, where each chapter constitutes a short story that the reader enjoys, but encourages him to continue reading.
What is the true value of a soldier's foot that saved the life of a higher-ranking officer? How does a person who has made laughter his profession actually laugh? How do brief yes or no answers summarize a man's happiness? What memories will a few paintings hanging in a school turned into a military hospital evoke for an injured student returning from war? Is it better to live to work, or to work to live?
These and other questions will be addressed by the German writer Heinrich Boll in this book. Reflecting in his sometimes funny, sometimes angry, and sensitive style every other time, his mockery of the conditions that followed the war, which forced people to resume their lives as if nothing had happened, and his mockery of the capitalist tendency that demands everyone to work to the best of their ability for the sake of “the future”... valuing contemplation. Slowly, Heinrich Bull writes in these stories his response to a hasty world, possessed by madness, and lacking its humanity.
في هذه الرواية- ما هو السر القديم الذي يربط عمارة آل داوود بالتاريخ القديم للنبي مو سى وقومه؟- وكيف اكتشف الجد الكبير تلك الأسرار القديمة الحقيقية عن عمارة آل داوود وسر خروج قوم مو سي من مصر؟- ما هي الأشياء المُخبأة التي تسعى بعض العائلات القديمة للعودة لمصر للحصول عليها؟
A man who believed in me:
Arwa stands in front of the door of her house after returning from Britain to spend the summer vacation with her family. She is surprised that her father does not know her and does not remember her name. So she tries in various ways to save her father after he was afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. In it, she explains the internal suffering that a person feels with this disease that destroys the cerebellum and makes him... A white sheet of paper free of all small details.
Novel: Where did you lose your hearts?
They were sitting at the dining table eating lunch.
The brothers were arguing about something, and nothing stopped them except the mother’s crying and the father’s shock. The brother stood up to find out what had happened and was shocked as well. The sisters did not realize what had happened to them...what might put the shock on their faces. They only knew one thing, which was that death was coming.
That day came when the father, who works in the most honorable profession of protecting the homeland, would leave. He was going to the battlefield!
Days passed and nothing had happened yet.. They thought that what was published were just rumours, until one day they felt an earthquake, an earthquake that was neither strong nor weak. From that moment they knew that their country had begun to collapse.. They knew that they had reached the end, or to be more precise, they had not reached the end. It was only the beginning, the beginning of the war and the beginning of the pain.
From that moment, the family began to struggle with death...to struggle with pain...the pain of loss...the loss of the self, the loss of the father, and the greatest loss was the loss of the homeland! The homeland that sheltered and protected them...so how could they lose the place where they made their memories?
أنا خطيئتُكَ التي لن تُغتفر، وأنا الذنب الذي بينكَ وبين دعواتكَ التي لن تُستجاب. سأظلُ أدعو عليكَ بصلواتي الخمس، وفي كلِّ سجدة، سأطلبُ من عظمته التي يهتزُ لها الكون
