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Sharaf (novel)
Sharaf is a novel belonging to prison literature, written by Sonallah Ibrahim Son'allah Ibrahim ( ar, صنع الله إبراهيم ''Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm'') (born 1937) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the " Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expr ..., published in 1997, and ranked as the third best novel in the list of the top 100 Arab novels. Summary The novel is divided into four parts: * In the first part, Ashraf or Sharaf, as his mother calls him, enters prison after killing Al-Khawaja (foreign tourist) who tried to violate his honor and inside the prison, Sharaf learns about a new world and new laws. * The second part is the story of Dr.Ramzi, who is imprisoned in a bribery case. This part is more documentary than literary, in which Ramzi reveals the crimes of multinational companies, especially pharmaceutical companies, against the Third World and its peoples. * The third part is a play writte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison Literature
Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his will, such as a prison, jail or house arrest.Tony Perrottet. "Serving the Sentence", ''New York Times Book Review'', July 24, 2011. The literature can be about prison, informed by it, or simply coincidentally written while in prison. It could be a memoir, nonfiction, or fiction. Notable examples of prison literature Boethius's ''Consolation of Philosophy'' (524 AD) has been described as "by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen." Marco Polo found time to dictate a detailed account of his travels to China, ''The Travels of Marco Polo'', to a fellow inmate whilst he was imprisoned in Genoa from 1298 to 1299. Dante Alighieri wrote the ''Divine Comedy'' in exile, far away from his beloved home town of Florence, which he was not allowed to enter again after 1301. Sir Thomas Malory likely wrote ''Le Morte d'Arth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonallah Ibrahim
Son'allah Ibrahim ( ar, صنع الله إبراهيم ''Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm'') (born 1937) is an Egyptian novelist and short story writer and one of the " Sixties Generation" who is known for his leftist and nationalist views which are expressed rather directly in his work. His novels, especially later ones, incorporate many excerpts from newspapers, magazines and other political sources as a way to enlighten the people about a certain political or social issue. Because of his political opinions he was imprisoned during the 1960s; his imprisonment is featured in his first book, ''That Smell'' (تلك الرائحة), which was one of the first writings in Egyptian literature to adopt a modernist tinge. In harmony with his political ideas, in 2003 he refused to accept a prestigious literary award worth £E100,000 from Egypt's Ministry of Culture. Biography Sonallah Ibrahim was born in Cairo in 1937. His father was an upper-middle class civil servant; his mother, from a poor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
