The Return of the Spirit (novel)

The Return of the Spirit also known as The Soul Return is a novel by an Egyptian writer Tawfiq Al Hakim, as he finished writing it year 1927[1] while he was a student in France and published it in the year 1933.[2]

The Return of the Spirit
AuthorTawfiq Al Hakim
CountryEgyptian
LanguageArabic

“The Soul Return” was the result of a set of literary and political factors that Al Hakim was influenced by as writers of his generation in Egypt, in a period between the two wars. However, among the most important of them is 1919 revolution, which constituted a victory national idea in the political field as it gave the thinkers hope for achieving the Egyptian character.[3]

The novel was presented in two artworks:

Plot

Mohsen who left Damanhur where his wealthy family, as he enroll in a Cairo school. Lives a simple life with his three uncles and an aunt who takes care of them after she misses the chance of her getting married. However, all the males fall in love with their neighbor Suniyah, the modern girl who plays piano, but she disappoints them all. As she falls in love with their neighbor Mustafa. Mustafa a well-off young man, leaves his shop which he inherited from his father Kafr El Zayat. Next, comes to Cairo in search of jobs for ten pounds, as Suniyah encourages him to return to his father’s shop. Suniyah collides with aunt Zanouba who dreams of marrying Mustafa and uses magic to win his heart, but she fails. The 1919 erupts for the return of Saad Zagloul and his comrades who were exiled from their homeland. Mohsen, his uncles and his servants participate in the demonstrations that support the revolution. As the novel begins of them being sick in bed in one room, it ended up in one cell in prison and in one room in a hospital.

Translation into Foreign Languages

The novel was both translated and published in Russian, specifically in Leningrad year 1935. As well as in French in Paris specifically in Vaskill Publishing year 1937. It was also translated in English in Washington year 1984.

References
  1. "عودة الروح - أحمد يوسف أحمد - بوابة الشروق". www.shorouknews.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  2. "Return of the Spirit by Tawfiq al-Hakim: 9780143133971 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  3. "الثورة الشعبية ومسألة العلاقة بين الأكثرية والأقلية - الأوان". 2016-03-05. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  4. "ﻣﺴﺮﺣﻴﺔ - عودة الروح - 1963 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض". 2020-06-22. Archived from the original on 22 June 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  5. "مسلسل - عودة الروح - 1977 طاقم العمل، فيديو، الإعلان، صور، النقد الفني، مواعيد العرض". 2020-10-18. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
Tawfiq Al Hakim
Plays Seven Sleepers 1933 . Shahrazad 1934 . Praxa or Judgment Problem 1939 . Bejamelion 1942 . Sulieman The Wise 1943 . King Oedipus 1949 . Society Theatre 1950 . Isis 1955 . The Deal 1956 . Diverse Theatre 1956 . The Game of Death 1957 . Thorns of Peace 1957 . Tomorrow's Journey 1957 . Soft Hands 1959 . The Sultan's Dilemma 1960 . Climbing the Tree 1962 . Food for Everyone's Mouth 1963 . The Sun of the Day 1965 . The Fate of A Cockroach 1966 . The Trouble 1966 . The Council of Justice 1972 . The Comic World Novel 1974 . The Donkey 1975
Novels The Return of the Soul 1933 . The Diary of a Deputy in the Countryside 1937 . The East Bird 1938 . Ash'aab 1938 . The Temple Dancer 1939 . The Wise Donkey 1940 . The Holy Ribat 1944 .
Stories The Devil Era 1938 . The Sultan of Darkness 1941 . Justice and Art 1953 . Show Me God 1953 . The Wedding Night (Stories) 1966
Philosophical Thoughts, Religious The Reflections of Politics 1954 . Equivalency 1955 . A Conversation About A Planet 1974 . Mukhtar Tafsir Al Qurtubi 1977 . The Four Hadith's 1983
Political The Judgment Tree 1945 . The Return of Consciousness 1974 . On the Way of the consciousness Return 1975 . The Political Tree Judgment 1985
Biography Prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him (Book) 1936 . The Flowery Age 1943 . The Life of prison 1964 . Internal Features (Book) 1982 . Egypt Between Two Eras 1983
Articles The Thoughts Under the Sun 1938 . My Donkey Told Me 1938 . From the Ivory Tower 1941 . Under the green Lamp 1942 . The Art of literature 1952 . The Youth Revolution 1975 . Between Thought and Art 1976 . In the Travel of Life 1976 . The Challenges of year 2000, 1980
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