. توالت الاكتشافات العلمية الكبرى في القرون الأربعة الأخيرة؛ حيث فسرت الكثير من الظواهر الطبيعية، ونتج عن هذه الثورة العلمية أن وثق الناس أكثر في العلم، وبدءوا يتملمون ضد سلطات رجال الدين حتى وصل الأمر إلى أن رفض البعض الدين بالكلية، وأسقطوا العقائد الدينية مما ترك خواءً نفسيًّا وروحيًّا، وجعل الناس أكثر قلقًا تجاه قضايا الوجود وموقع الإنسان في هذا الكون وسبب وجوده. ويقوم العقاد في هذا الكتاب بتتبع النظريات والفروض العلمية كنظرية النشوء والارتقاء، وكشوف كوبرنيكوس، والقوانين العلمية المادية، كذلك أرَّقت مشكلة وجود الشر في العالم أذهان الفلاسفة. ويرى أن تلك النظريات والأفكار الفلسفية كانت سببًا في الإلحاد والإنكار؛ وذلك عندما اعتنقها البعض وجعلها بديلًا عن العقائد الدينية. ويقول العقاد: إن المائتي سنة القادمة ستكون كافية للفصل في أزمة العقيدة الحاضرة.
The hero of the novel “The Philosopher’s Dance” is a controversial strategic thinker. He worked and still is an advisor to an Arab leader. He took up his job after leaving Palestine on the run after he was accused of dealing with the enemy during wartime, namely Hezbollah.
This thinker or philosopher practiced political dancing. He theorizes democracy and secularism while working for a non-democratic, non-secular leader who supports extremism. He also believes in Arab nationalism and does not recognize Palestinian nationalism. He engages in a sexual relationship with his Israeli colleague (Tzipora), then continues the matter and justifies his actions. He describes it as resistance. He claims his love for his wife, Layal, and at the same time he lives with a Moroccan woman of Jewish origin during his stay in Britain. This woman plays a major role in the novel as a visual artist and has the ability to listen and remain silent.
The philosopher moves to reside in Britain and discovers an attempt to assassinate him by a Druze soldier who was working in the Israeli army. Here the novel sheds light on the reality of the Druze, accusing them and trying to do justice to them at the same time. The credit for thwarting the assassination goes to a man from southern Lebanon who runs a restaurant in London.
The philosopher receives a letter from a deported Palestinian who took refuge in Lebanon, asking him at the end: How do you feel in your homeland? The message affects him greatly, and he searches for the answer whenever he has the opportunity, and there are many opportunities, but he fails to answer. The question forms a basic pillar of the novel as well.
Although the novel is realistic, it does not follow an ascending ladder of events, and what lies within it is much greater than the events mentioned. The novel, as much as it is a novel of events and actions, is an intellectual novel, and here lies the difficulty of talking about it.
A girl enters a nunnery with a box and a wedding dress. A woman follows a homeless woman wearing a green dress through the streets of the city. A third woman’s life changes after visiting her husband’s family cemetery, and she keeps searching for herself, for a “place.” And a fourth woman is lost in a world of gray, brown, and purple faces, above which a tree floats. She survives, and a fifth woman visits Istanbul with her husband and stays in the same hotel where Agatha Christie once stayed, and the lives of the two intersect in a mysterious way.
These five women are the heroines of Cristina Fernandez Cubas, who narrates a special magic that overwhelms us, seduces us, arouses our anger, and fills us with images, feelings, descriptions, and fantasies, before which we cannot be astonished, by the ability of her writer, to create a dreamy atmosphere in a unique literary style.
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