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Lamine Saidi ,a philosophy of allegory in his novel,The Women's City
تاريخ النشر : 23:39 - 2023/04/11
The Women's City is a turning point in the history of Arabic novel at the levels of style,language,approach ,
Viewpoint ,and issues...
Actually,every detail in his novel has various allegorical extension.As far as the characters are concerned,they imply the wisdom and deep knowledge of Tunisian and Arabic real life by Lamine Saidi,a contemporary novelist who cares for it with high prospects for a better future...
To begin with,let us examine the metaphorical side of the characters in the novel and their classification into the duality of goodness and evil.
A ) The characters who stand for evil are:Abuda,Adel,Rabab,prison guards,prison governor,the cat Lozan,the policeman,the public bath's owner,Myrian,Tim,Closh...
B The characters who stand for goodness are: Safouan,Fatima,Mahjouba,Abdulatif,Lina,Zouhour,Raja,Ahmed Al Mekacher ,Malak,Alarm,Anouar,Majeed...
C) characters swinging between goodness and evil are: Chaheenaz,the women protesting for freedom,the public bath's customers...
Abuda,a main character denotes betrayal,mental disorder,fear and wildness since he is an oppressive tyrant.
Rabab,Abuda 's wife,stands for dictatorship and arrogance... As for the prison guards they image both slavery and oppression
Since they obey orders brutally.
Lozan,the cat,is an allegory of Man's awfulness and wildness..who turns animal innocence into evil,betrayal and oppression...
Nevertheless,there are many characters in the novel who stand for goodness,for instance,Safouan,the main character or the hero whom many readers thought he resembles Lamine Saidi,the novelist.This hero represents endurance,strength and adherence to the humanitarian values...Safouan loves his homeland,people,literature and philosophy.Indeed,he married Fatima,an author and a thinker like her father,Ahmed Al Mukacher.
Thus,there is an allegorical focus on the value of the thinkers in society who shall be at the head of life,knowledge and every change in their countries...
As for Zouhour,Safouan's mother ,she loves art,beauty and literature though she is born in a pop district ,married traditionally and she has never been to school.This old-aged woman stands for wisdom and emotional strength far from schools and indoctrination...
Furthermore,the setting in The Women's City is meant allegoricallly.In fact, the desert is a symbol of drought and fertility at the same time thanks to its soulful dwellers who turn harshness into fruitfulness.Besides,the pop district stands for identity and depth,for instance,the real streets "El Mur" "Al Wedi" in "Bab Manara" in Arab Antique Tunis.
Added to these,Syria,Saudi Arabia,Turkey,England,Libya,France, Libanan,Algeria...
Beyond that,time is also metaphorical in this novel ,for example,the night is a symbol of no freedom,but the daylight means liberation from early moments of dawn...
The Women's City is an allegorical novel which is rich of diversity and duality in evil and goodness,slavery and liberation,happiness and misery,kindness and wildness...
The Women's City is a turning point in the history of Arabic novel at the levels of style,language,approach ,
Viewpoint ,and issues...
Actually,every detail in his novel has various allegorical extension.As far as the characters are concerned,they imply the wisdom and deep knowledge of Tunisian and Arabic real life by Lamine Saidi,a contemporary novelist who cares for it with high prospects for a better future...
To begin with,let us examine the metaphorical side of the characters in the novel and their classification into the duality of goodness and evil.
A ) The characters who stand for evil are:Abuda,Adel,Rabab,prison guards,prison governor,the cat Lozan,the policeman,the public bath's owner,Myrian,Tim,Closh...
B The characters who stand for goodness are: Safouan,Fatima,Mahjouba,Abdulatif,Lina,Zouhour,Raja,Ahmed Al Mekacher ,Malak,Alarm,Anouar,Majeed...
C) characters swinging between goodness and evil are: Chaheenaz,the women protesting for freedom,the public bath's customers...
Abuda,a main character denotes betrayal,mental disorder,fear and wildness since he is an oppressive tyrant.
Rabab,Abuda 's wife,stands for dictatorship and arrogance... As for the prison guards they image both slavery and oppression
Since they obey orders brutally.
Lozan,the cat,is an allegory of Man's awfulness and wildness..who turns animal innocence into evil,betrayal and oppression...
Nevertheless,there are many characters in the novel who stand for goodness,for instance,Safouan,the main character or the hero whom many readers thought he resembles Lamine Saidi,the novelist.This hero represents endurance,strength and adherence to the humanitarian values...Safouan loves his homeland,people,literature and philosophy.Indeed,he married Fatima,an author and a thinker like her father,Ahmed Al Mukacher.
Thus,there is an allegorical focus on the value of the thinkers in society who shall be at the head of life,knowledge and every change in their countries...
As for Zouhour,Safouan's mother ,she loves art,beauty and literature though she is born in a pop district ,married traditionally and she has never been to school.This old-aged woman stands for wisdom and emotional strength far from schools and indoctrination...
Furthermore,the setting in The Women's City is meant allegoricallly.In fact, the desert is a symbol of drought and fertility at the same time thanks to its soulful dwellers who turn harshness into fruitfulness.Besides,the pop district stands for identity and depth,for instance,the real streets "El Mur" "Al Wedi" in "Bab Manara" in Arab Antique Tunis.
Added to these,Syria,Saudi Arabia,Turkey,England,Libya,France, Libanan,Algeria...
Beyond that,time is also metaphorical in this novel ,for example,the night is a symbol of no freedom,but the daylight means liberation from early moments of dawn...
The Women's City is an allegorical novel which is rich of diversity and duality in evil and goodness,slavery and liberation,happiness and misery,kindness and wildness...
