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kazem in America in
conference about Don Quixote in
Literature and Art Work
Dr. sanaa Shalan and Dr. Adnan Kazekm participated in the activities of fiftyFirst International conference of California State University, Domingues Hills
in Los Angeles in the United states in its 2015 session under the title: (The
Influence of Don Quixote in the worlds of art and literature) by a specialized
joint discussion paper titled (The Influence of the Novel of Don Quixote on
the novel of Al Mutashael by Emile Habibi)
English and Spanish languages were used this international conference.
Ninety three academic researchers from 11 countries and four continents
took part in this conference over three days of sessions which went at the
same time in four sessions in the same place. The conferences included
activities on the sidelines such as photo galleries, musical evenings and
ballet dance as well as theatre performances and visits to some museums,
heritage and literary places in California.
Dr. Shalan and Dr. Kazem said in their joint research paper which they
presented in the research it stems from the premise the contemporary Arabic
narrative has been clearly influenced by the timeless international novel of
(Don Quixote) by its writer (Miguel De Cervantes Sabdra). The research
addressed the study of the novel (The Strange incidents in the
disappearance of Said Abi Al Nahs, The Mutashael) (1) by the Palestinian
writer (Emile Habibi) (2) as an example of this influence which the study
assumes as a clear and evident influence which is easy to notice. It includes
the formal, intellectual and visionary patterns. Their study concluded that
the following research axils: the crises, the tool, the novel, sarcasm, the
irony, the tragedies of destiny, the ridicule of the situation, and the mockery
of the language context, the visionary of the door step and the beauty of
hinting for the purpose of narration, and the proximity in building the
characters and the extraordinary and the majestic in the two novels and the
similarity of the structure in both novels.
The study concluded at the end that the influence of the novel of (Don
Quixote) on Emile Habibis novel (Almutashael) was clear and evident. It is
easy to see its features of that influence and interpret it based on
(Don Quixote) and his servant Sansho) live in a world of dreams and the
characters of the novel of (Almutashaem) Saad lives his life in a way
different to the way others live. He works as an agent for a company. He is
exhausted from writing as he wants to become a clerk, bet he never
achieved anything in that regard, his fate was the same as the fate of (Don
Quixote) who is living in a world of dreams but never realizes his dream,
incurring losses, physical and psychological pain. These two similar fates
raise similar questions about reality questions of existence and a persons
dilemma in complicated and tiring social dimensions.