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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

إذ يأخذ القارئَ الضجرُ والمللُ فيتضايق من تلك الفضائل التي يحُثّونه عليها بقسوة وخشونة .

ʔiḏ yaʔḫuḏ^u ’l-qāriʔa ’l-ḍaǧar^u wa’l-malal^u fa-yataḍāyaq^u min tilka ’l-faḍāʔilⁱ ’llatī yaḥuṯṯūna-hū ʕalay-hā bi-qaswaẗ wa-ḫušūnaẗ.

The reader will namely be taken by boredom and dissatisfaction, and he will be annoyed by [all] these virtues to which he is being pushed violently and crudely.

AR: qāriʔ, ḍaǧar, malal, faḍāʔil
EN: …

وليس للرواية أسلوب خاصّ ، أو قاعدة عامّة ، فهی تتناول كل الأساليب والقواعد ما دامت مبنية على الملاحظة والتحليل النفساني ؛

wa-laysa lil-riwāyaẗ ʔuslūb ḫāṣṣ, ʔaw qāʕidaẗ ʕāmmaẗ, fa-hiya tatanāwal^u kull^a ’l-ʔasālīb^a wa’l-qawāʕid^a mā dāmat mabnīyaẗ ʕalà ’l-mulāḥaẓaẗ wa’l-taḥlīl al-nafsānī;

Storytelling has neither a particular style nor general principles, it may include all styles and principles as long as it is based on observation and psychological analysis.

AR: riwāyaẗ, ʔuslūb / ʔasālīb, qāʕidaẗ / qawāʕid, mulāḥaẓaẗ, taḥlīl nafsānī
EN: observation, analysis

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