Laka’ Ben Laka’ Three Sessions in Front of the Wonder Box

Description

Through this theatrical tale, Emile Habibi immediately recalls the most prominent writer among the founding fathers of the contemporary Palestinian novel, not in the sense of chronological precedence, but in the deeper sense of founding, which evokes the artistry of the novel itself, both formally and spiritually. He also represents a fundamental trend in the contemporary Arab novel, its warp and weft infusing the modern novel form with narrative and non-narrative elements drawn from Arab heritage, folk tales, and forms of oral narration. Furthermore, the author’s creativity in this work stems from his symbolic evocation of the issues of the Arab nation in general, and the Palestinian one in particular, in a language not devoid of irony. In this way, he represents Al-Jahiz in his satirical critical literature in contemporary language.