THE PROBLEM OF HAPPINESS IN THE NOVEL OF NAGUIB MAHFOUZ "CHILDREN OF GEBELAWI"
Vavichkina Tat'yana Anatol'evna, Vlasova Yuliya Evgen'evna
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Abstract. The article considers how the characters of the novel "Children of Gebelawi" by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz are looking for happiness. The main ways of mankind to happiness are studied in the form of a parable, by the examples of five main characters’ fates. It is concluded that personal happiness is fleeting. Happiness cannot be found, lost in the memories of the past. In the present the heroes are desperately fighting for it, hoping to find it in the future. The writer-humanist argues that happiness of one person is possible only in the context of happiness of the whole society in all times of human existence.
Key words and phrases: Нагиб Махфуз, современная арабская литература, арабский реализм, роман-притча, проблема противостояния человека и общества, проблема счастья, проблемы гуманизма, Naguib Mahfouz, modern Arabic literature, Arabic realism, novel-parable, problem of confrontation between man and society, problem of happiness, problems of humanism
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