%0 Journal Article
%T On Bahaa Taher¡¯s Story ¡°Bi al-Amsi Halimtu Bika¡±
%A Zafer Ceylan
%J -
%D 2018
%X Bahaa Taher who was born in 1935 in Cairo is one of the most important living figures of contemporary Arabic literature. As an important supporter of Gamal Abdel Nasser¡¯s ¡°Egyptian development project¡±, Taher become one of the opposition figures among the intellectuals of the ¡°open door policy¡± applied by Anwar Sadat who became the president following the death of Abdel Nasser in 1970. He shows his dissatisfaction with political administration by abandoning his job in state institutions; therefore, he went abroad in 1972 and worked as a freelance translator in some United Nations agencies. For Taher, who stayed abroad until his retirement in 1995 and decided to return to his country in the same year, these years are a kind of voluntary exile. The story ¡°Bi al-Amsi £¿alimtu Bika¡± (I Dreamed of You Last Night) he had written in 1983 and he had published in his collection which titled with the same name in 1984 is one of the typical examples of the story of Egyptian Sixties Generation. Giving details of its author¡¯s life, keeping events in a mystical framework and editing out of a symphonic language make the story stand out among the other examples in addition to its narrative style of its period.The sequence of events in the story, such as the works of classical Western music, sometimes rising, sometimes descended, creates a symphonic unity. The other factors that increase the literary value of the story are the realist, symbolist and existentialist elements intermingled in a single story and the constant conflict of the spatial association with the temporal difference between the main characters. This story of the author, which we criticize in this study in terms of language, style and content, is one of the stories that literary critics evaluate it the most about contemporary Arabic narrative
%K Baha Tahir
%K Arap Edebiyat£¿
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/nusha/issue/41856/478301