The French writer is guest at the "Kalima" session

Author of the novel "The Falcon": Sheikh Zayed inhabited me

The participants in the session emphasized the importance of action.

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The French writer, Gilbert Sinouet, author of the novel "Le Faucon", which celebrates the personality of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul, said that he is happy with the echoes of the work issued by Gallimard, one of the major French publishing houses. Admitting that he felt during writing the novel that Sheikh Zayed had inhabited it.

He emphasized that the late one "is one of the greatest men the Arab world has known, if not the greatest."

This came during the virtual discussion session, organized by the "Kalima" translation project in the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi, on the novel "Falcon", with the participation of the President of the Abu Dhabi Center for the Arabic Language, Dr. Ali bin Tamim, Gilbert Sinoy, and the Executive Director of the House of Books sector, Abdullah Majed Al Ali, and a member of the scientific committee of the Sheikh Zayed Book Prize, Sultan Al Amimi, and the session was moderated by Dr. Khalil Al Sheikh.

Panoramic narration

The session dealt with the personality of the founding father, the challenges he faced and the transformations he accomplished, all of which are the focus of the novel "The Falcon", as well as what it contains from a panoramic retrospective narration of the life of the deceased through his tongue, and sheds light on what he showed, may God rest his soul, of love For people and the relentless pursuit of making unity, and building a society based on tolerance and coexistence.

The novel celebrates the personality of Sheikh Zayed the son, father, brother, leader and poet, and sheds light on this through many situations, highlighting his presence in the lives of many international figures, and in this narrative context, a group of Sheikh Zayed's poems were employed that reflected the aesthetic richness of his character.

The French writer expressed his happiness at the positive work and reception, which was represented in many articles and critical reviews, and added: “I did not know much about the late Sheikh Zayed, but I felt how important it was during my visits to Abu Dhabi, and the more I delved into my search for him, the more amazed me of his personality. Sheikh Zayed, he is one of the greatest men the Arab world has known, if not the greatest. ”The author continued:“ I felt that Sheikh Zayed had inhabited me, and I felt that I had fully entered his world, something that had not happened to me throughout my 35-year career. Sheikh Zayed Gandhi, I have not met a person with that abundant humanitarian flow.

not traditional

Participants in the session discussed the simplicity of the title of the novel, his ability to embody Sheikh Zayed's character and his foresight capacity, in addition to his strength of insight and his ability to see reality and its transformations.

"The Falcon" novel mixes facts with a fictional fiction that does not contradict reality but rather confirms it and deepens its aspects, in addition to being free from traditional editorials that seek to talk about the environment and time, as it begins to present the central character, while the events are accessed from the perspective of the late Sheikh Zayed The same, despite the existence of an informed narrator, which is what made the central fictional character able to shape her perspective of the world.

In the novel, a gradual construction of the character is aware of the importance of other characters and their symbolic presence, and in “Falcon” a breakdown of the course of time and its manipulation, a mixture of the real, the imagined and the sensed with a dream, the control of collusion, and the absorption of details and parts, all of which confirms that the novelist establishes a modern narrative language.

Into multiple languages

The novel "Falcon" was finally published by the French publishing house Gallimard, and the Arabic version of it was published through Dar Al-Jamal, and Saleh Al-Ashmar translated it into Arabic. It will also be published in several international languages.

The work sheds light on Sheikh Zayed's love for people and the pursuit of unity.

"The Falcon" mixes facts with a fictional fiction that does not contradict reality.

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