Influenced by the dream of a utopia and the ideas of the French philosopher Capet in his book “The Journey to Ikaria,” the two friends Plutz and Wagner embark on a journey to the New World, to participate in building the ideal society there, but they are separated upon their return in conjunction with the tremendous changes that Europe is witnessing at the beginning of the century. Twenty years ago, while Plotz immersed himself in realizing the Nazi dreams of building an ideal society; To become one of the figures in the theories of eugenics and racial cleansing, Wagner isolates himself from life. He works secretly in a library that hides banned books.
Despite the estrangement between them, their destinies meet again after the fall of the Third Reich. Because of a mission, Hanzen sends the American officer; To discover the secrets of Plutz's life, by interrogating that friend who accompanied him for long periods of his life.
Through the secrets revealed in lengthy conversations between book lovers, and the memoirs of a victorious officer in his defeated home country, Ova Tim - in his novel Ikaria - monitors the extent to which people may descend in their quest to build the ideal society.
The puppeteer Dingo's carriage hits a young child while passing through the village of Artemilla, the miserable village from which he fled years ago to join a troupe of acrobats, aspiring to make his entire life a continuous festival. He resorts to his old friend, Juan Medinao, to help him in this predicament, but his contact with the village master will finally awaken the details of the painful past, and with them he will begin a relentless journey through memory, recalling his relationship with his father, his mother’s suicide, and the mixture of hatred and love that he felt towards his brother. Stepbrother.
In this small-sized novel, but with a big impact, Anna Maria Matute is able to delve into the depths of her characters, searching for the deep scars that childhood leaves in their souls, revealing with keen insight and high sensitivity the most complex and profound human feelings, in a dense narrative that makes room for emotional feelings. Inferiority, fear, isolation, and hatred can tell their story too.
. أثَّرت الحضارة العربية في الحضارة الأوروبية بشكل كبير؛ حيث شمل تأثيرها جميع المجالات الروحية والمادية، فكانت أرض العرب مهدًا للرسالات السماوية الثلاث، وأيضًا حازت قصب السبق في تعليم العالم التدوين والصناعات السلمية والحربية، وعلوم الكيمياء والميكانيكا والفيزياء، كما قدمت للعالم الكثير في مجالات الطب؛ فكانت كُتب «الرازي» و«ابن سينا» هي المراجع المعتمدة لفترة طويلة بجامعات أوروبا. وامتدَّ التأثير العربي فشمل مجالات الفن والعمارة والموسيقى، كما امتدَّ إلى الأدب؛ فنجد أن القصة الأوروبية تأثرت بفنون المقامة العربية؛ لذلك يُقرر العقاد في هذا الكتاب أن أثر أوروبا الحديثة في النهضة العربية هو نوع من سداد الديون، من حضارة استفادت الكثير، إلى حضارة أنارت العالمَ وقتَ أن سادتْه الظلماتُ، مُختتمًا كتابه بالآية البليغة: «وتلك الأيام نُداولها بين الناس
