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Said Akl books. Lebanese writers are known for being very creative.
Their books are an effective way to teach people.
From these great writers is Said Akl
Many Said Akl books we will discuss in this article.
Said Akl (July 4, 1911 – November 28, 2014).
He is a Lebanese poet, writer, playwright, and linguist.
Also, He is considered one of the most important contemporary Lebanese poets.
He was also one of the staunch defenders of the Lebanese identity, nationalism, and language.
Also, He wrote many poems in the Lebanese dialect and classical Arabic.
He wrote many plays, popular songs, and Arab patriotic anthems.
Also, He was born in Zahle, one of the districts of the Bekaa Governorate, Lebanon.
Work in education and journalism.
He was one of the greatest poets in existence.
He was called the young poet, due to the fact that he was a poet since his childhood.
May his hair have been distinguished by renewal.
Said Akl was considered one of the greatest advocates of Syrian nationalism.
This was in its beginnings with the cycling of Arabism as well, which appeared during the eastern independence movements after the end of the Second World War.
But after the deep readings of the poet, he turned into the greatest advocate of Lebanese nationalism.
Said Akl had actively participated in the 1975 Lebanon War.
He founded the most important political movement known to advocate Lebanese nationalism.
Because of all this greatness of the great poet Saeed Aql.
He has had many great books.
The most famous and effective Said Akl books
Introduction to Comparative Literature
Written by Valerie.
This book attempts to open a new horizon of Arab literature’s interest in comparative literature.
The book attempts to draw the basic principles of comparative literature.
He tries to clarify the comparative image and what it requires from the culture, relying on the most prominent.
The following is the needs and concerns of contemporary literature.
Finally, to work on studying the various relationships between comparative literature.
So, the author puts this applied study as a systematic model for studying influences.
He relied on Said Akl’s theories to compare him with the great French poet Paul Valerie.
Make it in two parts:
Section One: An Introduction to Comparative Literature.
It includes six chapters on comparative literature and Arab literary criticism.
The second was dedicated to Said Akl and Paul Valerie.
It includes two chapters:
The first constituting a reading of Valerie’s thoughts and positions through the Lebanese image.
The second reflects the poetics of the encounter between Akl and Valerie.
It talks about the concept of poetry, the concept of language, the concept of a poem or poetic architecture.
Jephthah’s daughter
One of the most epic novels written by the great writer Saeed Akl.
The events of the play take place in the village of Gilead
This village Jephthah is king and commander over, his mother is the crazy “bitch” whom Jephthah is ashamed of.
He did not tell his daughter that she had a grandmother, as a result of his embarrassment of her.
His wife is dead, and he only has his daughter Rachel.
A war raged between Gilead and the village of Bani Ammon.
Jephthah vowed that if he triumphed, he would kill the first person to leave the door of his house while returning to the city in victory.
When he returned, his daughter and her friends were the first to go out to celebrate.
Said Akl books Magdales
Maryam Magdalene: the wrong woman who repented after seeing the Nazarene, that is, Jesus Christ
I heard his sweet speech that penetrated her deep, explaining her chest to guidance
After feeling lost, she was searching for herself
This was during the reign of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who was persecuting Jews and Christians who believed in Christ
And who was called the Nazarene group
Of course, Magdalene was among them
Address these events with unique genius, philosophical imagery, and tragic scenes.
Despite its horror, the most beautiful thing about it is that it sticks with the viewer’s imagination long after seeing it.
Qadmous
The great legendary play by Said Akl.
Cadmus is a legendary classic poetry play
It was written by Said Akl since 1937
He issued it in 1944.
It is a three-chapter tragedy that deals with the struggle between duty and love.
Cadmus is a noun from a Semitic root word meaning coming from east or east
The play begins with the god Zosh or Zeus kidnapping Urb, the daughter of Aghnar, or Ashnar, king of Sidon, to the Greeks.
Her brother Cadmus followed her, seeking to rid her of him and avenge his honor and preserve the glories of his country of Sidon.
However, the way to do this is without risks and horrors.
He has to fight the dragon guarding Orb in “Al Biosi” and get rid of him to get his sister back.
Orb’s will was to try to win her love to win her beloved Zosh, the great-goddess
And keep it for herself without losing Cadmus.
As for Cadmus, he wanted to recover his sister.
Also to victory for his honor and duty towards his country Sidon.
Do this by eliminating the dragon
But also without losing his sister, Urb.
This conflict between the two wills also constituted a great confrontation between the subject and the object
Embodied in the folds of theatrical dialogue in it
She was supported by the side attitudes of the characters who played a role in the course of the theatrical event, namely:
- Mira, the nanny of Cadmus and Urb, who defended both
That defense was in a faithful attempt to return with her stepson to Sidon without losing either of them
- The blind man or fortune-teller who tried to rip off the two brothers and triumph over the god Zosh in various fraudulent ways.
Tragedy ends in the victory of duty over love.
Cadmus kills the dragon and pulls out his molars to scatter them on the ground as the gods commanded him.
The seeds sprouted men “who later became the nobles of Thebes or Thebes, the first cities built by Cadmus in the land of Greece.
Theatrical structure:
It is a drama of the kind of tragedy.
That often ends with a sad ending
In it, Saeed Aql adopted the three units on which the classic play is based, namely: the unity of place / the unity of time / the unity of the subject or plot.
- The place here is the land of the Bossu, the lands of the Greeks, and it is one place that contributes to consecrating the unity of the subject.
- Time is one solar cycle whenever possible.
As for the unity of the subject or plot, it is the theatrical story that we mentioned above, which adopted the logical sequence of events:
(beginning – middle – end).
I have reached a critical state or state of extreme crisis in the core of the conflict
The struggle between Cadmus’s duty to restore Orb and avenge the honor of his country and preserve Sidon’s glories.
Orb’s desire to keep and win her lover.
The truth is that the topic is the most important in these units, and the author was keen not to have many side plots.
With these site plots, the theatrical structure is lost and dispersed, which makes the theatrical work lose the element of crisis.
The element of the crisis is what prompts the recipient to know the end of the tragedy.
Several elements are added to these three units.
These elements were associated with tragedy from its birth.
Saeed Akl proved it in building the play in the fulfillment of the legendary cultural stock from which the tragedy in its Greek cradle sprang
And in his keenness to make his literary work completely and complete publicly.
The characters are fixed in the play
Meaning that it does not change in its fateful positions
It also embodies sociological dimensions of ideal people in the mind of the recipient.
Which contributes to convincing the audience of its role and influence in the course of the theatrical text.
Also, Saeed Aql has succeeded in achieving the moral purpose of this play
The goal is to devote oneself to good, achieve justice, and fight evil or avoid it whenever possible
As well as “his mastery of the dramatic form in Cadmus.”
Perform through the accreditation of the course
The choir that is the mouthpiece of the heroes of the play, whether they are individuals (Cadmus) or the gods (Zosh) perfected it.
Whether they have good or bad qualities.
Said built the mind of “Qadmous” on the idea of? harmonizing the play and the representative text.
He was aware and a preconceived notion of the necessity of writing his play.
It would be a representative text that would achieve his aspirations
He aimed to achieve a good impact and impact that would serve his Lebanese national cause in society
And it is not just a piece of literature suitable for the pleasure of reading and literary appreciation.
As for the dialogue, it is a necessity
Either dialogue between the heroes of the tragedy
Or a self-dialogue resorted to by Said Akl in more than one scene
In either case, he adopts the escalating tone and intensity in the speech
To show the opposite views between the characters to reach a broad artistic horizon that serves the success of the theatrical work.
It is a more happy dialogue with a mind to be in the language of classical poetry
This is influenced by the Greek tragedy that was associated with poetry since its start.
Finally, in this part of the research
Said Akl succeeded in presenting a theatrical structure,
It is based on the characteristics of the complete Greek tragedy
Use it to portray the human act to the fullest
With a serious poetic effort.
He wanted to launch and spread the message and glory of Lebanon. Also to prove the Lebanese national identity as an idea or as an existing project in itself.
It is a project that fulfills historical, cultural, and social elements
This was considered by some in 1944 as a declaration of a confrontation with the spread of Arab nationalism.
Saeed Akl blended legend with the Lebanese national heritage
Mixing it in a rare painting of vigor and belonging to the homeland and nothing but the homeland
Even though he was narcissistic in aspects of his play
He expressed the necessity of attachment to the land and self-defense through the homeland.
All that in order to preserve the existence and establish its human and cultural identity
It is a characteristic that has always formed an existential concern for modern poets and innovators of this period and beyond.
It provides us with a model for openness to world civilizations through the Greek heritage in which the legend of Cadmus was recorded
Greek heritage is a world heritage known far and wide.
The death of Orb is also at the end of the tragedy
The beginning of the victory of her brother Cadmus is nothing but an expression of the symbolism of death and rebirth
This symbolism was an important axis of modern poetry.
As for Orb’s confusion between her love for her brother and her love for her husband, it is a trait of fragmentation
That characteristic that marked the creative production of modernist poets
This was also evident in Cadmus Saeed Aql.
The play “Cadmus” is a classic work of art
Belongs to the category of tragedy, which was established by Greek poets
That was since the fifth century BC
Its theatrical and poetic elements were integrated into form and content
It dealt with the essence of the struggle between love and duty represented by Cadmus and his sister Urb
This tragedy ends with the victory of Cadmus.
Here we arrive at the end of our nice article about Said Akl books
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