There is perhaps an irony in the fact that another of al-Hakim's plays of the 1960s, Ya tali al-Shajarah 1962; The Tree Climber, 1966 , was one of his most successful works from this point of view, precisely because its use of the literary language in the dialogue was a major contributor to the non-reality of the atmosphere in this style involving extensive passages of non-communication between husband and wife | Early life [ ] Tawfiq Ismail al-Hakim was born in October 9, 1898, in , Egypt, to an father and mother |
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His mother was the daughter of a retired Turkish officer | Thus, he refused to call them plays and published them in separate books |
Later, the two writers wrote together a novel called The Enchanted Castle Al-Qasr al-Mashur, 1936 in which both authors revisited some of the themes from al-Hakim's play.
8It concerns the tale of the seven sleepers of Ephesus who, in order to escape the Roman persecution of Christians, take refuge in a cave | |
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He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama | A Sparrow from the East, 1938 Novel• The story of 'the people of the cave' is found in the eighteenth surah of the as well as in other sources |
" However, he eventually married and had two children, a son and a daughter.
The Return of Consciousness, 1974 External links [ ]• These plays were more artistic because they were based on Al Hakim's personal opinion in criticizing social life | |
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Comenius University in Bratislava: 33—47 | Al-Hakim's response to the social transformations brought about by the , which he later criticized, was the play, Al Aydi Al Na'imah Soft Hands, 1954 |
In the play, Al-Safqah The Deal, 1956 , for example - with its themes of land ownership and the exploitation of poor peasant farmers - he couched the dialogue in something he termed 'a third language', one that could be read as a text in the , but that could also be performed on stage in a way which, while not exactly the idiom of , was certainly comprehensible to a larger population than the literate elite of the city.
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