This psychological inclination will push Egyptian writers in the direction of the emotionalist/sentimentalist approach, [i.e.] idealism,1
and it will obstruct new developments in modern literature.
For, in our opinion, tomorrow’s literature will be erected on the pillars of observation and psychologicalanalysis,2
both of which aim to portray life as it is, without exaggeration or reduction,
AR: ʔadab, ġadan, mulāḥaẓaẗ, taḥlīl, nafsī, taṣwīr, ḥayāẗ, ka-mā huwa/hiya EN: observation, psychological, analysis, portray life as it is, without exaggeration or reduction
أيْ الحياة العارية المجرّدة وهو ما يسمّونه مذهب الحقائق "الريالسيم" .
Therefore, [we expect that] a tough battle will break out between the followers of the old school, Emotionalism/Sentimentalism, who are the majority,
and the supporters of Factualism, who are [still only] a few in whose hearts/souls new driving forces/incentives have found their way as a result of their acquaintance with the manifold and lively varieties of art in the West.
AR: maḏhab al-ḥaqāʔiq, nufūs (nafs), ʕawāmil (ʕāmil), ǧadīd, ʔaṯar, funūn (fann), ġarb, taʕaddud, ḥayawī (ḥayawiyyaẗ, ḥayāẗ) EN: art in the West
فعزّ عليهم أنْ يروا جمود آدابهم المحتضرة ، فأحبّوا أنْ ينفخوا فيها روحاً جديدة قوية تحطّم القيود العاتية والأوضاع السقيمة التي رسمتها لنا أجدادنا .
This is why it was painful for them to see that their [own] literature was lying in agony and stagnating, and this is why they wanted to breathe new life into it, so strong as to destroy the thick bonds and the boring conditions that our ancestors had designed for us.