The Aesthetics of Literary Discourse in Modern Arabic Literature by Khalil Muhammad;

Author:Khalil, Muhammad; [Khalil, Muhammad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 5928661
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2019-01-31T00:00:00+00:00

4. From One Window to Another

We shall dedicate the reading of this part to the first story in the collection, The Last Supper (P.5-12), setting out from the text itself. The truth of the text lies in its meaning, close to revealing the cards after integrating them into the space of the story. It is inferred in the same context that the coming reading, like all other readings, has relative but not absolute knowledge, and can be analyzed like any other text.

Throughout the story, you are confronted with a flowing stream that has a beginning, but no end, of interchanged windows opening upon each other, and the more something is related to entering through them, the more you feel things in front of you begin with windows perpetually branching out, and multiplying.

The reader accompanies the writer and moves with him from one window to another, and from one scene to another. After he leaves a window or passes a scene, he will soon pause in front of another window, and another scene, and so on. As soon as he begins to believe that he is about to reach the destination or the desired value which he never attains, he will discover that the journey ahead is still pretty far from ending, and the destination is much farther than he could ever imagine, which ensures that the act of writing is never complete without the act of reading, and receiving.

If we consider the writer to be a basic reference from within the folders of the text, where we can notice him and feel his presence at every corner of the story, and even in every move in the story, then the reader is also not absent in his conforming functional reference.

This is the life experience which the writer wishes to impart to the reader to actualize the meeting between the writer, who is the sender, and the reader, who is the receiver; wishing to actualize complementation between both of them: the private/self, and the common/other. Aldridge, the English language critic, says: “Literature is criticizing life, it is even the best way to criticize life.”

The writer is completely aware of whatever he argues with the contextual reader, like a tape presented in front of him while selecting portions from life education and experience. This makes the reader tend to believe that this story may reflect, in some of its aspects, and to a certain extent, the features of the writer himself as he is trying to crystallize his rich consciousness, and his educational and broad life experiences with whatever may assist in, firstly, exploring his own self, and secondly, in exploring everyone it reaches or may reach in that age phase. In fact, this is a phase that to a certain extent may not be much loved by certain people. It concerns a perturbing daily life in the environment of this accelerating modern time. This is the truth, and the writer tries through his writing to reveal life to us as it is, in its truthfulness with no falsehood or deceit.

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