Book Description | This novel, written by the pioneer of romanticism, Tawfiq al-Hakim, was a novel about an entire people represented by the members of that family, which was brought together by the same scene at its beginning and end, a people united around one thing, gathered around it and enveloped in the spirit of the crowd until it became one individual, indivisible and inseparable from each other. It was also a novel, “A Family,” in which the characteristics of the Egyptian people were represented when they went through an ordeal, just as a people go through a labor phase they experienced in 1919 AD, so they were born into one body to which the spirit returned and permeated all its members without exception. Just as the family was united, it joined the people and everyone gathered around one idol, as has been customary since the dawn of history, as we have seen in several scenes that traverse history lengthwise and life breadthwise. |