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Youssef Idris is one of the most important writers and novelists that Egypt and the Arab world gave birth to.
Most novelists are close to the Egyptian village
That is why he was called the “Chekhov of the Arabs”
According to the great Russian writer “Anton Chekhov”.
“Yusef Idris Ali” was born in the village of “Al-Birum”, in the district of Faqous, in the Governorate of Al-Sharqiya, on May 19, 1927.
He lived his childhood with his grandmother in the village
He completed his studies in Cairo,
Because of his great love for science, he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at Fouad Al Awal University (the University of Cairo Now)
His university witnessed his political struggle against the British occupation.
His struggle was through his work as Executive Secretary of the Student Defense Committee
Then a secretary for the student committee.
In 1951, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in medicine specializing in psychiatry
Appointed a physician at the Kasar Eye Hospital
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In 1960 AD, he decided to devote himself to writing
Appointed editor of the Republic newspaper
Then he wrote Al-Ahram newspaper in 1973.
He also joined a number of writing bodies, such as:
- Club the story
- Writers Association
- Writers Union
- The International Pen Club.
Idris has travelled outside Egypt, visiting several Arab countries more than once.
He also visited between 1953 and 1980 AD and many European and Asian countries.
Of which:
(France, England, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, and Southeast Asia)
And the effect of that appeared in his writings.
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He was awarded the famous awards “Order of Algeria” in 1961
In appreciation of his role in supporting the independence of Algeria and his struggle with the Algerians in their battle for independence
During his literary career, Idris won several prizes, including:
“Wissam of the Republic” twice in 1963 and 1967 CE, in appreciation of his services in narrative and theatrical composition
He won the super prize “Abdel Nasser Prize in Literature” in 1969
In 1980 he received “The Order of Sciences and Arts from the First Class”,
“Saddam Hussein Award for Literature” in 1988 AD,
“The State of Appreciation Award” in 1990.
Idris created what he wrote in a different school, using his skill in the language to paint different sectors of Egyptian society.
His first experience was in publishing stories in the magazine “The Story” publishing the story “Canticle of the Strangers” on March 5, 1950.
Four years later he published his first collection of stories, “The Cheapest Night.”
Other anecdotal collections followed, including: “Hadith of Honor,” “Came,” and “Kill Her.”
Among his plays are “The Planners”, “Farafir” and “The Acrobat”.
He also participated in many literary, political, and intellectual articles
He published it in groups, including:
“The poverty of thought and the thought of poverty
And “the importance of being educated, people.”
“Two Tribes of the Sixties”
Through his book, “Two Tribes of the Sixties”:
He recorded the political and intellectual events that occurred during the 1960s.
A large number of his works have turned into cinematic films, including:
A.Forbidden B.No Time for Love C.Blemish D.The Bottom of Medina.”
Youssef Idris’ approach to writing the short folio has undergone a drastic change.
That change was in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
The simple, realistic portrayal of life as it is in the lower strata of rural society, and in the Cairo Dialogues, is disappearing.
A more complex story pattern appears.
Gradually, attitudes and figures became more general and comprehensive
Until his prose almost stripped absolute poetry.
The great writer passed away on Monday 23 September 1991
He died after leaving us a literary world of his own which he drew for us through what he wrote.
1. Most famous book of Youseff Idris books (Cheapest Nights)
The cheapest nights are one of the first collections of Youssef Idris’s stories.
It was published in 1954, immersed in ancient Egyptian realism.
That was during the time of Youssef Idris and before it.
Celebrates the life of the Egyptian village and city
Where the concerns of the characters and their connection to the land and place are.
It is characterized by providing a large variety of characters that seem simple in their appearance
But the content Youssef Idris wanted to convey was much deeper than the simplicity of his characters.
This is, without a doubt, one of the aspects of Youssef Idris’ genius.
The collection includes the following stories:
- Look
- Certificate
- On Assiut
- Abu Sayed
- Hybridization
- Accident
- A bet
- 5 hours
- The wish
- Mother of the World
- weighted
- Funeral
- Mishwar
- His eyesight
- the machine
2. Best one of Youseff Idris’s books (Republic of Farhat)
(Farhat Republic) wrote a play and a story at the same time
It was a story in the beginning, and then the writer made some adjustments to it that justify it to be a play worthy of this name
Like a story or a play, it calls for sincerity and mastery of work, humility, and help for others
Joseph was not from an aristocracy
Rather, it was touching the members of society and their classes, especially the lower classes
He conveyed the details of her life with great craftsmanship
Perhaps it is the writer’s style that attracts you the most.
You also find this in the novel of the Forbidden, and how he recounted the details of village life and migrant workers
3. The Hero
This collection of stories includes 5 stories
They are:
(The last tattoo – right – e .. is it a game ?! – the hero – the wound)
Idris recounts in the stories of this book some of the heroics of the Egyptians during the tripartite aggression on Egypt in 1956
And from the atmosphere of the stories we read from the story of “the hero”:
Even while I see his picture in the newspapers the second day
I lie to my eyes and look back at his picture
I hear Subhi Gad staring at the page
He says: As for a boy, this is a healthy drink from his mother’s milk. This appears to him as if he is a beast of beasts guiding the world.
Notice how he looks.
One is 35 years old and does not know that he can inflict mosquitoes
This signs a plane in its own right! And he signs it alone!
Even when I heard all this and saw it, I was contemplating Ahmed, who is in my imagination, and I can hardly believe it.
4. Incident of Honor
A wonderful story collection of Youssef Idris.
A short story collection consisting of seven stories.
Written by a man writing stories with a magic pen
Hidden magic encapsulates every line in this man’s stories and makes you enjoy every letter
Youssef Idris does not write a short story that you will read and forget after several days
Rather, he writes for you a short story that carries enough literary value and beauty to put it in the same place as the greatest novels and the largest in size and stature.
Seven short stories
Including six stories, each one discusses a habit or tradition of miserable tradition
Its degree of misery varies from being shy, angering, or laughable to excessive misery.
He ended it with a rather long story of sixty pages in which he discussed the good habit of the Egyptians
The height of artistic maturity that the most difficult philosophies of life are told very simply
As if he were your old friend telling you what you missed about the events of your village that you left long ago.
Our village is Egypt and our friend is Youssef Idris.
The group is like a river flowing together and then accelerating, technically and philosophically
Until he reaches his most speed and power, in his latest story, his secret is pure.
Joseph opens several windows to Egypt for us through his stories, which all revolve around the poverty that nested in its flanks
Perhaps from time immemorial, and surprisingly, this poverty embraced benevolence, contentment, and tolerance.
5- Very attractive one of Youseff Idris’s books (The End of the World)
Youssef Idris’ genius is evident in this diverse story collection.
Eight short stories, most of them in the Egyptian countryside, as usual, but without repeating for any moment.
Yusef Idris’ skill is seizing the moment to separate from events plagued by mountains.
From the home game where the conflict of imposing opinion in play between a child and his child
To the disabled sheik in a village that does not see the person with a disability except as you see a stone or, at most, trees
And perhaps you made it a monster or an ogre, with which you frighten children into the heart of events
The goal of the group is to revive the conscience of the free people, where the cry of I am a human being
Then he praised the municipal council who preferred to live without a leg while keeping his personality on a prosthetic leg that enslaved him
After that, something goes crazy, as the prison drives everyone in it to madness, whether prisoner or jailer, even the dog, and the dog have gone crazy.
Then his next stop, at the end of the world, which the group bears its name, and whose end we actually reach the end of the world and the end of life.
All the genius in the story of the curtain, where Sunsen does not disturb her life
Except for her husband’s jealousy, who opened all the curtains from where he thought he closed them
And the story is explained for a long time, and reading it is not a substitute for trying to extract its philosophical meaning that you prefer to taste yourself.
The last stop is the longest story of the strange group, where the teenager’s desire for a sense of masculinity by:
Accompanying fear and life on the embers of the night, to possess membership in the crime club.
A very wonderful collection and the most amazing thing about it is the thin thread that connects all its stories
I think it only talks about one topic, perhaps the subject of life itself
It is the struggle between repression and freedom.
Here is a very nice excerpt from the book:
The night was immense, as big as a funeral tent, mourning the death of the day.
There is nothing in it but the lights of a pale moon and stars lit to guide mourners.
Ghaitan was wide, extended wider than Ghaitan al-Nahar.
We leave the fields of harvested wheat to enter the fields of corn and pierce the middle of a cotton
And we watch our dark imaginations in the flooded land waiting to plant rice.
Much land is vast and extended
Every inch of it is planted and cared for, and a race for its sake, those overpowering people who lie in their homes as if they slept out of sadness
They turn around, waiting for the day to come and sweep them with his fists
Then with all his determination he scatters them to spread the face of the earth with them
Then they turn the blackness of it into greenness and it’s ruined by Ammarat, and its top is bread.
Until the night comes, and with his sickle he reaps them, and with his secrets and secrets, he stores them in their human silos, which are also made of clay.
6. Very interesting one of Youseff Idris books (Black Military):
It tells the story of a man who was a soldier in the army’s medical department
When the police entered, they made him a reporter for the medical office
But they found him more sharp and intelligent than the original Tomerji
They gave him his role and he became
With his high-walled hat and a broad, shiny, slanting forehead, in perpetual insidious shame
A sign of the main office
His stand in front of the door of al-Hakimbashi became half closed, and his line was about the arriving pioneers late and deceiving them to keep them away
Key sign.
Here, we reach the end of our article which in it we dealt with Youseff Idris’s books.
Thanks for reading.
