Writers: reading classics of literature is essential to understanding the future
Mohamed Tawfik and Domenico Scarpa in the “Reading the Classics” session.
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Writer and novelist Mohamed Tawfiq and Italian writer Domenico Scarpa agreed on the importance and role of classics of literature in understanding and talking about the future, stressing during the “Reading the Classics” session held at the Sharjah International Book Fair that the classic language is not as difficult as some imagine, but rather Understandable in a way that crossed the border and reached the world.
The writer and novelist Muhammad Tawfiq said that the classic literary work is the work that has survived for many years, so we do not find bad classic works, as excellent works have remained with us until now.
Classical literature is literature that responds to man's desire for wisdom.
He explained that the literature of classics carries a human weight, and we can look at classics from another point of view;
For example, in my childhood in Cairo, my father used to take me to a place in the center of Cairo to sell used books, and it had excellent books, but they were sold at very low prices.
He continued: When some say that the Arabic language is a difficult language in its classics, I reply to them by saying: Read by Abu Hayan al-Tawhidi and Ibn Khaldun, for their language was simple and eloquent, as if it was written yesterday.
Tawfiq said: The Arabs have contributed to the march of human civilization from more than one angle and in more than one era, and this is an important thing, but it is not sufficient;
It is important to realize that the world is taking shape in a new way today, and we must contribute to that as well, stressing that the most dangerous thing we are facing today is stagnation;
The past is the basis for the present and the building of the future.
The Italian writer Domenico Scarpa said that writers in the last century were very influential, so we do not know why these writers moved and moved from the shelves of libraries, although they speak differently than writers today.
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