2023-11-29 15:36:05
Sharjah: Aladdin Mahmoud
Some scenes do not leave our minds, but remain entrenched despite the passage of days and years. Because it is linked to memories filled with human attitudes and gestures full of beauty. As one travels through countries and capitals, he always finds that there is something that draws him to some places where he lived beautiful moments in the company of a number of people who remain in the memory.
The first part of the novel “French Perfumes… My Dreams are French,” by the writer Obaid Muhammad Al-Jarishi, published in its first edition by Dar Al Adabaa for Publishing and Distribution in Sharjah, revolves around a journey that carries many attitudes, knowledge and experiences that the writer acquired as a result of touring the Western world, and in a way Especially the capital of light, Paris in France. The work embodies the situations that the writer was exposed to while abroad due to his studies, and they are filled with contradictory situations of feelings of sadness, sadness, joy, pleasure, and other fluctuations that are narrated by the hero of the story. The author says regarding the work: “Sailing in This first part of the novel will be a witness to the process of acquiring knowledge, education, and achieving aspirations, as it is accompanied by events of estrangement, and their growing impact on the seeker of knowledge. The book is a mixture of feelings in a widespread and present estrangement that affects the soul and body.
The novel is located in 275 large pages, and includes an album of pictures of places stuck in the soul of the writer, and the hero of the narrative is called “Sanad,” and the narrator’s voice takes over narrating the events between the Emirates and France. The book also contains an introduction explaining the work, its spaces, and its events, as it indicates The book points out that human experiences in exile far from the original homeland embrace the breezes of the past with the heat of the present and the vision of the future and cross the plains of hopes. The narrative in the work attempts to depict a group of human feelings and relationships, whether negative or positive. What is important in the story of the book is what a person learns in exile. In this novel, the writer tries to unleash his thoughts and form a solid narrative material by choosing phrases with elegant meanings as much as possible, and the narration comes closer to revelation in which the secrets of the soul are mixed with the human suffering of it.
* Methods and techniques
Narration in the work depends on a number of techniques and methods, as the author employs a direct language free of symbols, through which he works to create and manufacture images and scenes. We also find that description is one of the important techniques in the novel, especially with regard to the life of the hero of the story and his feelings, as well as conveying The narration spans multiple temporal and spatial spaces, and there is a special celebration of the place where the hero of the story was raised and raised. The writer works to pass many difficult and heavy situations through elements of suspense and excitement. The writer employs beautiful and elegant sentences and phrases, in a way that may be redundant to narration in some locations. However, The novel in general is the result of a great effort by the author, especially with regard to evoking situations and creating events and narrative turns, which gave the novel aesthetic and intellectual dimensions, where the meaning remains present, and perhaps what is striking in the work is the creation of characters, especially the hero of the work “Sanad”, as he The kind of people who stick in readers’ minds.
* dreams
The subtitle of the novel, “My Dreams are French,” is specific to this first part of the work, and it refers the reader to the feelings, ambitions, and desires of the hero of the story and his dream of going to the French capital, despite the difference in reality between the place he grew up in and Paris, and the fears and obsessions that plague him between them. From time to time, however, the desire to travel is great and urgent, and the author devotes space to talking regarding dreams and ambition, as the writer indicates that since childhood, he has remained a lover of adventure and different human knowledge.
* Struggle
The nature of the narrative in this novel seems a little different, as it talks regarding the story of an Emirati citizen, who grew up in a specific environment, married young, and worked as an employee. He is governed by customs and traditions, and at the same time possesses great ambition, and the conflict arises on the personal level through the idea of traveling from The environment in which he was raised with all its social and cultural loads, and the travel to new shores, to countries that differ in everything from his country in terms of values, customs and traditions, so that the Arab person becomes a stranger in the face, hand and tongue, and the narration in the first part of the work focuses on those feelings that afflict the youth. Arabs talk regarding the other before a travel trip, when the mind is busy thinking regarding a new life that it will accept but knows nothing regarding.
In this first part of the novel, the book opens up to the story of its hero, “Sanad,” before traveling to Paris, that young man who was raised with virtuous and noble values, and lived and learned in an environment surrounded by calm and not aware of noise. The book continues to describe the morals, qualities, and virtues of Sanad, and reality. Where he lived, he was a gentle young man who respected those who were older than him, appreciated them, and revered them. Sanad drew from that religious education and was committed to it, which provided him with the strength and fortitude necessary to face the burdens and fluctuations of life, as well as the ability to curb anger and personal emotions. Sanad relies in all his affairs on God Almighty, as he is the son of a cohesive society, in which parents play their role in the lives of their children.
The book paints a vibrant picture of Sanad, his family, and his family. He married young and had children at an early age, and this makes him feel how close he is to his children. They do not fear him, but they fear the volcanoes of his revolution. He was very angry, and his children looked at him like a big brother or like a big brother. The teacher or teacher, just as his relationship with his parents and brothers was “naturally protected islands of memories whose shores are touched by waves of nostalgia.” He had great love and appreciation for his parents, and Sanad was struggling in life to pursue an honorable living and provide a measure of a decent life for his family.
The author mobilizes the novel with an abundance of intimate memories, mentions many places, and talks regarding human feelings and feelings of longing and nostalgia. Perhaps the picture that the author drew of the hero of the story, Sanad, and the social, environmental, and cultural circumstances that formed his character, is an important and necessary introduction in order for the reader to prepare for the part. The second part of the novel, when Sanad travels to Paris for education, begins a new life there, full of conflicts, turns, and situations that may contradict his personality and the way he was raised and brought up. He is on a date with a different reality, and the writer has succeeded greatly in this part of the novel in making the reader anticipate I am looking forward to the release of the second part.
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