"In the beginning was the narration"
[Good Bo Azza]
Kalez, December 1930, Mrs. Genevieve receives a lengthy message from her brother, Mr. Hubert, after the death of their father, telling her about his behavior in their legacy, which was surprised by the sheer size, and tells her - first of all - of his father’s other legacy From burning them, this notebook is attached to his letter, as the parent put his last message to them before his final departure.
There, on the deathbed, the aging feudal lord, veteran attorney "Louis", wrote to his wife "Eza", and behind him his two sons and grandchildren, his confessions that had not taken place during the four decades of their marriage, singularly to his feelings of complete security in order to leave this time without worry and without It is prevented by any other objection that this complex character hides.
Hatred, hatred, stinginess, insidiousness, deceit, sadism, transcendence, and excessive selfishness were the direct features of the character of "Louis", which was brilliantly portrayed by François Morillac in his novel "Commencements d'une vie", published in French in 1932, the Arabic version of which was deviated from Dar Al-Mada, translated by Nazih Al-Hakim, after its author, Nobel Literature, won in 1952.
This novel, through which we see a psychological study dealing with concepts that may be consumed, but came in an innovative formulation, quiet in its details, and very loud in its questions left behind. Concepts such as the relationship of money, uterine connection and family loyalty, the subjects of grace and their view of society after the rich, differing views about care and spending, the loathing that one transmits demon, and the corresponding views between who owns and who needs, perceptions of the meaning in which life is upright, and ideas about the life that annihilates the taking Of them as much as enriched by their abandonment.
From "Bordeaux" - in France - "Moriac" started with his story about all this, and to the lines of the owner who kidnapped the death before its completion, the narration of the unique French novelist on the lips of "Louis", the hero and the narrator, ended, so let's take a look at these lines!
A classic tale
In a simple family consisting of a mother and her son, this old death supervisor grew up. His father dies and his mother remarries, and it is only a few years until she inherits from her second husband a reasonable wealth, so that the poor boy "Louis" turns into a young feudal lover who is waiting for the opportunity to join a family from his new class, and he fulfills his desire to associate with the "Fundodij" family, whose dignity was the lady "Iza" is entrusted with reading this letter, which occurred in more than 100 pages.
That message in which "Lewis" mentioned the mixed feelings that he went through towards her and her family and their children, this frightening amount of grudge which he hides for her after she confessed to him with an old emotional impulse, and this loathing that exacerbated their reproduction of their children and his wife's departure from them - on him - completely.
Three sons, one of whom dies as a little and grows two, and the father's sake grows with them, that man who has never sanctified anything but money, and writes on his deathbed his story in which he did not even compliment himself. The "snake knot" - as he describes it - was what filled his heart with hatred, grudge, and blackness for all. He sits in his room eavesdropping on his family, hears their machinations to stone him, plots to deprive them of inheritance, describing them as the most heinous and cruelest descriptions on each line.
Does this look strange ?! It will not increase our wonder, then, if we know - from his narration - that he used to torture his mother, who was killing her soul for him, that anxious lady who inherited from her husband lands and fiefdoms that brought forth a lot of profit, but despite her eagerness - which I inherited for her son - she was very generous to him She even left the house entirely to him, marrying a small house in a simple corner of a neighborhood.
Louis says, “Let my beautiful denial go away, the most foolish, they are, that he will not reach the extent of this love. A love that expels him from his headquarters will soon return to his strength in another place. Love used to be satisfied with what was left for him and he will be managed” [1]. This love that this strange man tortured, and perhaps pleasured with his hollowness and disobedience, before appreciating him late.
In fact, “Money was not the thing that captures this miser, nor revenge is what this madman asks for. This man was losing love so he was trying to make everyone around him feel the need for him thinking that he would nourish his need and thirst for feeling that those around him love him.” [ 2]. "Muriak" portrayed him as an absolute grudge in a human body, socially stupid, impassioned, cheeky enough for people to utter and alienate him, and his female family!
The novel Vaulty Complex of François Morillac, |
“I am the man that a woman would not love,” so was Louis’s belief in himself, which soon shook when Iza accepted marriage to him, could he be wrong? Did "Iza" end the time to hang out with prostitutes and give him the only relationship in which he takes love without buying it with money? Our answer does not matter as much as Lewis' answer was important in this regard, and the latter resolved his answer when she told him "Eza" about her previous love.
Rudolph, the handsome boy whose family refused to be close to him, was Eisa's unseen stock in the heart of Louis. It was just a story about an event from the past, but she did not know that she answered the existential question of "Louis" with "No, no woman can love you, despicable." Perhaps the poor woman did not mean this, but her old story was enough, "Louis" to revert to his hatred and resentment against others, so they lived together for forty years, and the husband did not distract from the husband's heart except his grudge and contempt.
To this the story seems familiar, a person who is divided by wickedness, we all know people like him, but not all of them seem to have the courage of "Louis" that prompted him to write his last will, which he decided during his writing to practice a final chapter more evil than everything that was written.
Drama first .. Drama always
At this point, let us introduce a little insight into the Bosnian philosopher "Begovic", when he describes life as starting from the reality of evil, is it the result of external circumstances, or is it stemming from purely subjective motives? Then he deals with the answer in which the believer separates from the material, to tell us that the first assumes the presence of evil and good in himself, and believes in the necessity of piety in straightening it, while the second returns the matter to circumstances outside of himself, so that the human being becomes just a future thing without freedom [3].
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From this joints, Louis realized what he did not realize, because the existence of evil was not absolute in himself without good, except that his tyranny over him was what prevented this freedom and robbed his happiness, as he was a slave to his hatreds to the longest extent; so that in order to deprive his family of his inheritance a determination to grant it Ibn Suri - who gave birth to him on a whim - his family does not know anything about him, and he hardly knows him, but he did not know his shape, but decided to give him his wealth in revenge from his children.
From here, Muriak begins his novel in a new way, and from this moment she will accompany Louis with a picture that might motivate you to sympathize with him when his struggles appear on the surface, starting from his journey to the neighborhood in which this son will meet, and his emotions being strewn towards him, and saying goodbye to Eza before he travels . Then the interrupted conversation took place between them, and Louis learned how Eza loved him and her pain struck him this long. Here the heart of this old man is moving with a white point that is combating the lake of hatred that is drowning it.
This hatred extracted from "Louis" his faith in his Creator, so that he decided to deprive his family of his inheritance because they are believers, because they - as he saw - they have God and he has his money and wealth, but his desire was not completed because his son revealed his intrigue and the deal collapsed, and "Louis" returned to find " Iza - for the first time - had stopped waiting for him after she passed away, and the only way to see her was to bury her in one cemetery. Iza died and Louis cried. For the first time he did, but his two sons did not believe him.
"Those whom I should have loved have died, and those who could have loved me died. As for the rest of me, neither time nor power to try to go to them and discover them. Everything in me, even my voice, even my movements, and even my laughter, belongs to that monster that I set in the face of the world. Which I named in my name. " |
The lost present
"Even the choice of people does not alone learn how to love. To avoid the absurdity, shortcomings and stupidity of others requires that you know a method of love that the world no longer knows."
This is how Louis mourns his hearty heart, this heart. He who lived his life lost the recognition of his need for love. Today, he stands the last stand in front of himself. He has nothing to confess to himself except a white paper. He had to write what is going on inside him from a long struggle over it and to confess In front of himself first, and in front of others secondly about his great pain "[4], but the intended reader is no longer here to read, and perhaps that shock was what prompted" Louis "to search for life late at night.
He says: “That is the instinct of love that he does not want to perish, when his land disappears from under his feet, and his familiar sky is destroyed, so love quickly invents another sky and other earth. That is an hour in which the hateful one who no longer loves whispers: You will not see me yet, I will not burden you , I will live in your shadow, and I will protect you with a companion protection that you do not feel. ”[5]
In this novel - simple details - "Muriak" surprises us with a fact that we know very well, but we do not know it because we have become familiar with it, because in the absence of this love, meanings are absent from the soul. Al-Masiri [6] tells us about this passion that transformed his outlook on life - when he loved his wife - and how his wife's affection for their fledgling daughters played the biggest role in returning him to faith, and "Begovich" [7] introduces us to this faith in its broadest sense, as the basis of every feeling And passion, one cannot believe until one can love.
Louis suffered two things because his hatred allowed him to defeat him, even at the moment he woke up to find him saying that “the ugliness of aging is that it is the product of life. My total account cannot change any number, and I spent sixty years building this Sheikh who dies in spite Then, he shouted, sad, sad, sorry for what he had missed: “Oh, Lord ... Lord ... if you exist!” [8] If faith came to his heart, perhaps the soul that had tormented so much of creation might have calmed down, he was the first of them.
It is indeed a first-class narration of human relations, as reader Ahmed Al-Wakil says on the Good Reds website. In two hundred pages, Muriak gave us an example of a boy who lost his emotions. He inherited the world a family that manages the machinations and lives their lives with malice and hatred. A man who lost his heart and lost His belief, ignorant of the causes of these hatreds, but he is aware of its power over him, and he says: "We have never known the causes of all this discord, but we were immortalized in the hatreds of our ancestors." "Moriac" provided the vivid example of "El Tayeb Bou Azza", in response to the novel: "Why is the novel? We respond in a short phrase: Because it is life" [10].