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The novel's events revolve around the character "Khaled", an employee with a fragile personality who suffers from problems in proving himself and...
Fulfilling his ambition and hesitation about the nature of his desires, he works in an environment characterized by shifts and changes, some of which are positive, and
Others are negative and he is not good at dealing with them due to his nature and personality, and this is linked to changes that occurred in him
The nature of society recently and phenomena that have recently reared their heads, such as the phenomena of atheism and religious extremism, and also
He takes a bewildered attitude towards it, even though he admires a character who represents the middle position, and he is his manager, Falah
Always working, and in turn he is harassed because of his dedication to work and his fight against undesirable personalities
Except through formal development and forgetting what brings real progress and advancement to the work, away from mediation
And personal compliments.
Will people change with time? What will the struggle for power be like seven hundred years from today? Where does the humiliation come from: from the other’s enslavement of you or from your submission to the idea of being a slave? What would change in the balance of good and evil if you had the opportunity to be in the place of your enemies: live among them, and see life from their perspective?
Many questions are raised by Pierce Brown in his vision of the world of the future, which seems more cruel, but does not differ in its laws from our current world. He tells the beginning of the story of Darrow, who belongs to the red class, the lowest class of the future society painted in colors. Like the people of his class, he works every day to make the surface of Mars a habitable place for life. He goes on dreaming of a better future for his children, believing that all classes of this society, including the golden leaders; They work for this dream, but he soon discovers the betrayal to which his people were exposed, and the illusion they live for. Motivated by the pain of a lost love, he embarks on a journey of revenge in order to overthrow his enemies, in which he is not deterred even by becoming one of them.
The story of another dictator from Latin America, except in this novel he is an educated, enlightened dictator who befriends an academic, a poet, and a writer in Paris, attends opera performances, and decorates his palace with artistic paintings. But despite his “high culture,” he is corrupt and corrupt. He does everything to remain in power, plotting conspiracies and drawing plays, because he knows that without the throne he is worth nothing.
Carpentier wanted the title of his novel, “The Discourse of the Method,” to be compatible with the title of Descartes’ book: “The Discourse of the Method.” While the philosopher lays down his theory of the method with his hands in cold water, its application appears here hot and burning, poisoned with iron, blood, and fire. The Cuban writer addresses the personality of the tyrant from the inside, contemplating his psyche, entering into the recesses of his mind, with writing that is bold in its conceptions, rich in its fertile details, and innovative in its techniques. List it.
