تعرّف على مفهوم السعادة بشكلٍ حقيقي وعملي.- إن الخوف غولُ ضخم قد يجعلك تهرب بعيدًا عن كل أسباب الراحة والحياة، تعلّم كيف تواجه المخاوف.- تحقيق الأهداف يحدث عندما نتعلم ما هو الهدف الذكي، كيف نحدده ونفهمه ونحققه.- الحياة تواجهنا كل يوم باختباراتٍ جديدة، الخيانة والغدر والحزن والاكتئاب
There are few writers who have chronicled with such honest clarity and such bold honesty the development of the soul through the stages of life. Peter Kamintsend (1904), Damian (1919), Siddhartha (1922), The Steppenwolf (1927), Narcissus and Goldmund (1930), and The Journey to the East (1932) are different versions of a spiritual autobiography, and different depictions of the path of Joan. Each new step refines the image of all previous steps, and each experience opens new worlds of exploration in a continuous effort to communicate the vision.
Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, was closely connected to the Indian world. He was influenced by Eastern philosophies. When he was once asked about the most important influences in his life, he said that they were “the Christian and never nationalistic spirit of my parents’ house,” “reading Chinese masterpieces,” and “the personality of the historian Jacob Burckhardt.”
He was working in a sales company to support his family, which consisted of a father, mother, and sister. He worked to pay off his father’s debts that had burdened him. He is the “good son” as long as he performs his duty to the fullest extent, and any change in this is accompanied by anger, rejection, and neglect. In his workplace, which he found himself forced to live with, the state of domination and control by the chief of staff on the one hand is clearly evident, while on the other hand, it is matched by a state of subservience and submission on his part.
In fact, he has an unconscious desire to be fired from his job, but he fears for his family. From here arises a state of schizophrenia, as the two models of the cruel father and the boss represent the controlling authoritarian principle, and this is what arouses in him both submission and the spirit of rebellion.
He tried to follow the rules, to be a polite boy, to be rational as his boss described him at work... and between all these honest attempts, we find him completely losing himself, and he began to experience a surprising existential crisis!
Here he wakes up from his nightmares one day to find himself transformed into a disgusting “insect”!!
At first glance, he thought he was still dreaming, and amid the chaos and unreasonableness of the events, he needed conclusive evidence to confirm to him the veracity of the event, and this is what he got when he found his family shocked and terrified by the horror of the event. Then he realized the reality of the event and exclaimed, saying: “No, it is not a dream.” .
Between heart and mind:
It is a novel that tells the experience of a failed love, which was ultimately a lesson for its owner. Ahmed lived his entire life under the robes of his conservative family, and spent many years dreaming of marrying his cousin Hessa, whose love had grown in his heart since their childhood. He was a passionate lover, but his family’s financial conditions were difficult. And conservative traditions surrounded him from every side like a bracelet surrounds the wrist, and despite his sincere love for Hessa, who shyly exchanged his feelings of love for him, he was unable to unleash her feminine feelings in his lover, who fell in love with a chaotic man with a strong personality to the point of indifference, and when She leaves him and moves on, leaving him heartbroken and desperate, suffering from depression, from which he cannot recover except when he takes revenge on the man who loved her for a man from whom that shock made another human being, after she taught him the lesson of his life.