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.
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.
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