. 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
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.” .
Nathan Price, a Baptist minister, leaves civilized America, going on a missionary mission to the Belgian Congo, bringing with him his family, who carries with them everything they think they will need, but the African land surprises them, turning everything they brought into something worthless, and even their very existence will be full of challenges. Especially with the political events that are ravaging the country that is struggling to gain its independence, and the major powers are interfering in it, assassinating Patrice Lumumba, the country's first elected prime minister.
The novel is alternately narrated by the mother, who loses something irreplaceable there, and her four daughters, each of whom narrates what is happening in her own way, trying to find her own separate path to salvation.
“The Poison Tree Gospel” is an intense journey in the vibrant African land, and a deep exploration of the other, written with a smooth narrative in which Barbara Kingsolver worked to transform the thorny threads of religion, politics, and race into a piece of literature of breathtaking beauty.
This novel was nominated for several literary awards, was translated into more than thirty languages, and sold more than four million copies around the world.
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