The old man who emerges through the hole in the door
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The sheikh who emerges through the hole in the door:
A social novel in a style mixed with sarcasm and sobriety. It tells the story of a young woman who recalls her childhood memories through her first experience writing the novel, using random transitions to embody her complex personality and mixed feelings. She moves from one era to another, between the past and the present, specifically from the time she was six years old until she grew up. She reached puberty with the imprint of the disability that haunted her throughout her life. She was suffering from laziness, was weak in understanding lessons and school curricula, and was behaving strangely, which was a harsh criterion for judging that she was not like other children and was suffering from a disability.
Owned houses and others are rented, fleeting and temporary dwellings, between which the writer moves across different Syrian cities, turning the houses into stations, or rest stops that allow her to contemplate the context of her life, her choices, and the source of her desire to remain between closed doors. The subjective nature of the book turns it into a kind of personal testimony, but Nour Abu Farraj is betting that her memories may intersect to a large degree with the experiences of middle-class young men and women from the 1980s generation in Syria, who lived a relatively stable life, before the war came and made a difference in their context. Forcibly expel them from their safe spaces.
In the face of the transience and uncertainty that war brings, description becomes a tribute to the fleeting; This is why the book tries to remind readers of the long time it takes to build a house, in the symbolic or structural sense, but it nonetheless warns them against becoming captives to the place, and encourages them to carry their homes as souvenirs, or small luggage on their long journey.
You do not have to be a student of philosophy or metaphysics, nor be interested in them, to read this book. The famous Spanish philosopher simply and deeply delve into a series of ideas closely related to our daily lives, and from there he sets out to explain metaphysics and our need or lack thereof. “For metaphysics itself is nothing but what man does. What you and I do in our lives
In conclusion, this life is something prior, and it comes before everything that metaphysics will reveal to us.
In these lectures, which he delivered to his students in a regular semester, every reader will find an introduction to understanding the world and understanding himself, and everyone interested in philosophy will find a rich engagement with two main trends in the history of philosophy: realism and idealism.
