ولليلتين بقيتا من شوال سنة إحدى عشرة وأربعمائة فُقد (الحاكم بأمر الله). وقيل أن سبب فقده أخته ست الملك, وكانت امرأة حازمة، وقيل أنها غضبت لأفعاله التي هددت استقرار الخلافة الفاطمية. وقيل بل تآمرت عليه جماعة سرية, حين قرب إليه رجلاً خطيراً يُدعى (الشيخ الأسود), وقيل بل اختفى لأن الله أرسل صاعقة من السماء فوق رأسه أحرقته بعد أن قال بأنه إله, وقيل أن بعض العامة قد تآمروا عليه, وقد انتشر الرعب والفزع في بر مصر كلها بسبب فرسان الظلام الذي أتى بهم ليحكموا ليل القاهرة.
About the book (In Stories of Peoples)
The book (On Peoples’ Stories) aimed to focus on popular literature in general, and the popular tale in particular, because of its close connection to the literature of the nation and society itself, and a representation of people’s lives and their victories over the pressures of life, and their attempts to achieve their hopes and ambitions through it.
The book includes twenty-five diverse articles in the same field. Each article specializes in a special topic of folk literature or the folk tale and studies it in some detail, such as talking about the narrator of the folk tale and its recipients, and some of its characters who are considered the backbone of every folk tale, such as the princess, the hero, the aggressor, or The evil one, as well as diving into the kingdoms of the jinn and mixing them with the worlds of humans.
The characters of this novel are searching for a different life. Some of them leave their work in the cotton factory and become sex workers in the hot springs resort, while one of them enters prison of his own accord in search of calm. A third goes to her hometown, discovering strange caves and tunnels, while a fourth chooses a refuge in A rural province, where Chinese herbs are used in traditional medicine.
These characters are intertwined in multiple emotional and physical relationships, while each of them seems like a mirror of the other, as the story of each of them begins where the previous one left off, in a fluid temporal structure.
In this novel, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, Tsun Shieh writes about the meaning of life in its relationship to love, sex, birthplace and work, and about the vanishing border between life and death, between wakefulness and sleep, in a blurry and turbulent plot full of sensual descriptions and vivid metaphors. , its aspects resonate with echoes of magical realism.
A short walk / part two:
More than one idea crowded into my mind, and I felt that the question was too deep for me to solve with a short answer, so the idea came to my mind to present short stories about the abnormal patterns of characters through the Instagram application, so I quickly implemented it, and within a few weeks the number of followers doubled several times, so I had to create a new dedicated account. To review and analyze these patterns in a brief, easy way that can be heard in two minutes, I called it (a short journey). After the success of the first part of the book, which dealt with 50 diverse contents and topics, I decided to complete the journey with the second part, which includes 20 topics on aspects of personality, self-development, and presenting positive values. It is brief and easy for the reader to understand and apply, to reach a wider segment, and to achieve greater benefit. .
