Document Type : Research paper
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Institute of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies
Abstract
Yusef al-Saba'i (1917-1978) is one of the contemporary Egyptian storytellers. He has depicted the problems of Egyptian society in his stories and novels. Because in the novel Arz al-Nafaq, Al-Sabai has well depicted the moral and social problems and corruptions of his society in the fantasy genre through a problematic hero; Therefore, we decided to analyze this hero based on Lucien Goldman's sociological approach with a descriptive and analytical method. The result of this research shows that the author himself, as a problematic character who cannot find a way to revive moral values and virtues in his ruined society, is a hero from among the middle class of society, in a context similar to his own society. He creates positive that has internal dissatisfaction and emotional longing for direct attainment of transpersonal qualitative values; Therefore, he observes social problems and moral vices, especially hypocrisy and hypocrisy, in different classes of his devalued society and deals with these problems in a degraded way, that is, by consuming moral elixirs, but with all His efforts to reform his degraded society were disappointed and failed and he was rejected from the society. Therefore, he is forced to drink the elixir of morality to the people of his society in any way possible, so that the society is freed from any hypocrisy, lies, and deceit, and the people live comfortably and comfortably.
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