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The book deals with the memoirs of an employee, where the challenges related to working life and the mechanisms for dealing with them are listed. It is considered one of the inspiring memoirs that, in addition to the narrative narration, presents the scientific side of human resources. It also presents the practical side that derives its strength from the writer’s experience and vision. This is done through 31 thoughts that represent 31 days, which is the period related to the employee’s eligibility for salary.
في هذا الكتاب، الذي نُشرَ للمرة الأولى عام 1908 على صفحات جريدة "المهاجر" لصاحبها أمين غريّب، يتحدّث جبران عن شخصيات تمرّدت على التقاليد الإجتماعية القاسية، أكانت هذه تتخذ شكل زواج قسري أم استبداد إقطاعي أو غير ذلك من الأشكال.
We are a generation without farewell, says the German writer Wolfgang Borchert, summarizing the tragedy of his generation that was led into World War II without anyone saying goodbye to it. Perhaps Borchert is the voice most capable of expressing this generation, and that war that left massive material and spiritual devastation in Germany. It also left literary ruin.
Borchert left behind a collection of short stories that his fellow Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Heinrich Böll, describes as “complete masterpieces,” while Egyptian writer Ibrahim Aslan sees in his stories “a sublime expression of the ferocity of all wars without a single direct word.”
In this book, we present to the reader a selection of these stories, and what attracted us to them is the human approach to major topics, such as war and death, love and the feeling of loss, and the artistic expression of them.
On Animal Farm, the horse Boxer believes everything he is told, and works hard day and night. This pure naivety paves the way for evil people to rule our world. Naivety is not infallible. Gullibility must be accompanied by intelligence, knowledge, caution and foresight. This is wisdom. To be wise, you must know evil and see it clearly, and you must also be naive enough to believe in your ability to resist it. Through his collection of stories, Uday Al-Zoubi seeks to raise a question about the limits of wisdom, and its relationship with naivety. Foolish, unwise naivety, and evil, unnaive wisdom, almost dominate our world, spreading confusion and darkness and making the world a dangerous, ambiguous mixture of things, ideas, and stories.