![]() ![]() ![]() I have recently been thinking about the lack of the futuristic in Arab novels, and the scant amount of science fiction in Arab literature, but in a way, it is true as this article suggests that this is a science ficiton novel, as the anti-hero Said begins his narrative with telling us that he has been removed from the earth by an extra-terresterial saviour, suggesting that he has died, and is now looking back on the “strange events” in his life. The novel begins with a poem from Samih al Qasim‘s The Quran of Death and Jasmine.Īnd the postman has not knocked on your door ![]() Emile Habibi’s novel The Pessoptimist (1974) – to give it its full title, The Strange Events Surrounding the Dissapearance of Said the Unfortunate the Pessoptimist – depicts the life of a Palestinian in Israel, employing black humor and satire to deal with what it means for Arabs to live in the state of Israel. ![]()
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