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ʕĪsà ʕUbayd, Muqaddima (1921)

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III-§1.a

ألم يجعل السيّد لطفي المنفلوطي كبير كتّاب اليوم روايته "تحت ظلال الزيزفون" التي حاول تجريدها من "الفونس كار" خيالية شعرية بعد أن قضى بقسوة على شخصية "استیفن" !؟

ʔa-lam yaǧʕal al-sayyid Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī kabīr kuttāb al-yawm riwāyata-hū “Taḥta ẓilāl al-zayzafūn” allatī ḥāwala taǧrīda-hā min "ʔalfūns kār" ḫayāliyyaẗ^an šiʕriyyaẗ^an baʕda ʔan qaḍà bi-qaswaẗ ʕalà šaḫṣiyyaẗ "ʔistīfan"!?

Has not Mr. Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī,¹ the greatest of today’s writers, in an attempt to render Alphonse Karr’s² novel Sous l’ombre des tilleuls³ into Arabic, turned it into a romantic fantasy after he had severely butchered “Stéphen”’s character?!

1. Muṣṭafà Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī (1877-1924), the foremost exponent of the sentimental, emotionalist trend in early twentieth century Egyptian prose. 2. French author, lived 1808-1890. 3. Under the Shadows of the Acacia Tree (1832), rendered into Arabic as Maǧdūlīn, aw Taḥta Ẓilāl al-Zayzafūn (1917) by Muṣṭafà Luṭfī al-Manfalūṭī.

AR: Manfalūṭī, kātib (kuttāb), al-yawm, riwāyaẗ, Taḥta ẓilāl al-zayzafūn, taǧrīd, ʔAlfūns Kār, ḫayāl
EN: Manfalūṭī, romantic, fantasy

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