It is true that the joke has its own literature and rules in funny literature, but it is also true that it has deep roots in the lives of peoples that determine its general framework. By virtue of its targeting of a people, a sect of it, or an unknown or known person within it, it takes its general and current form, crystallized from “humorous” types. “It suits the era in which it was found, and it can be said: The general context of what is funny and what makes us sad does not change, but what changes is the mechanism of receiving them.
Al-Homsi, as one of the prominent figures in contemporary humorous literature, was targeted from the beginning and labeled a fool. Indeed, Ibn al-Jawzi classified him among “the absolute fools and fools.” Accordingly, the jokes were focused on the people of Homs later. For your information, what marked the people of Homs was created by important historical events that the city experienced.
Homs has fought a humorous ideological war throughout its history. This work examines the roots of the Homs joke without entering into an analysis of the jokes told about the people of Homs, except what is necessary to point out.
"This is freedom. It is a winter thing that cannot be tolerated for long. In it one must constantly move, as we do now. In freedom one must dance, it is cold and beautiful. But do not fall in love with it, because this will make you very sad later. A person only exists in the areas of freedom for moments, and no more. We have crossed the limit now. Look at the wonderful path on which we are skating, how it is slowly dissolving. You can now see freedom dying. When you open your eyes, this will be a haunting scene The heart is yours many times.”
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Walser treats language in this novel with as much respect as one would treat a revered and close friend at the same time. Hermann Hesse
"Jacob von Gonten" involves a kind of parody of the traditional educational novel.
Christopher Middleton
