Tunisia and its Australia’s counterpart continues its career in the 2022 World Cup, as well as in the World Cup Literature 2022, and we get to know together Tunisian literature on the novel “The Smells of Mary Claire” by Tunisian writer Habib Al -Salmi, and from Australian literature, we get to know together the novel “Oscar and Lucinda” for Australian Peter Carry.
The novel of Mari Claire
The scents of Mary Claire ..
A novel by the Tunisian writer Habib Al -Salmi, in which we follow the development of an emotional story in all its stages: from the moment of the exchange of the first looks, to separation, through what governs the relationship between a man and a woman of ambiguity, complications and confusion that exposes the fragility of this relationship and the speed of its damage.
A moment at a moment, the small details that are made, by accumulating them, take daily living with all its authenticity and truth: from the morning breakfast and vulgar personal habits, even the desires of the body, its instincts and its emotions, two civilizations and collisions meet.
The novel was translated into several international languages, including English, French, Italian and German, and entered into the final “short” list of the 2009 Arabic Novel Award for the year 2009.
In “Marie Claire’s scents”, the woman is no longer a hub of the multiple novel, but rather becomes the subject of the narration and its subject through the love story that brings together Mahfouz coming from the countryside of Tunisia and Mary Claire, who was born in Minelson, one of the suburbs of Paris.
Through this relationship, Habib Al -Salmi raises his various questions about the issue of love and the coherent of the caveats between men and women on the one hand, and about the relationship between the ego and the other and the paradoxes, circumstances, civilizational and social differences between an Arab man from the third world and a French woman of different formation, values and concepts on the other hand.
Oscar and Lucinda’s novel by Australian Peter Carry
Among the known novels “Oscar and Lucinda” for Australian novelist Peter Carry, who won the Booker Literary Prize and the Miles Franklin Award in 1989, and entered the lists of the best 100 international novels released until the end of the twentieth century.
This narration has two heroes, one of whom is called Oscar Hopkins, who is the son of an Anglican priest, and his image in the novel shows that he rebelled against his father, while the second heroine in the novel is Lucinda Laiblastare, and she is an Australian young woman. .
Oscar Hopkins and Lucinda Leblistreer met a ship going to Australia, and both discover that they are gambles, one of which is impulsive and the other is irresistible.
In the novel, Lucinda challenges Oscar that he will not be able to transfer a glass church from Sydney to Bellingin, a town on the southern coast of Wales, and this bet changes their lives forever..
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