Do the Arabs really read the novel?

What happens if a book is presented as a "Kentucky" or "McDonald's" meal? Will it inspire you to read it with an appetite similar to the appetite and burning appetite you receive without leaving home?

There is no doubt that the fast structure of life has created a fast, including the reader's interest in e-books, less expensive than paper books, so there are companies to provide urgently needed books, the pain indicates the existence of such? Which books do you ask?

The novel occupies a prominent place among the other literary genres, perhaps because it is capable of absorbing other genres such as the new, the theater and the poetry, but also of providing a space of freedom allowing the writer to express his intellectual positions and to treat them in detail.

One of the reasons for its superiority is also the fact that interest in poetry has diminished, perhaps because the Arab taste has not yet been able to resolve its position, between the old and the modern, and the possibility of linking the novel's popularity to literary prizes. And then, we can understand that the Arab reader is a victim, because he seeks more quantitative presence at the expense of the genre, because of the growing interest in the competitions devoted to the novel, the Arabic he buys novels because fast food is necessary because speed is a need of the nature of this time? Or is he trying to quickly get out of the reality novel of that time?

But what do others read in the world? "As for bestsellers, Don Quixote is the first in the world with a sales figure of 500 million copies," said Brendan Brown in a report published by Global English Editing. "Harry Potter" Best Book Sales: She and the "damned child" sold two million copies and were the "Best Sellers" in the United States in 2016.

It seems that the taste of the Arabs is not far from that of the readers as to the interest in the novel, but the comparison of sales rates in the Arab countries with those of other countries shows the difference in the volume of sales ; we did not know so far that an Arab book was sold In millions, even those considered as "bestsellers", not even those of Arab novelists, such as Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel laureate, published in a Country of more than 80 million inhabitants, Dan Brown delivers more than a million copies of his novels before even turning. Haruki Murakami, just announce the publication of a novel, for thousands of people to expect, the reality of the novel among Arabs is it similar to its position in the world?

If the argument is that the novel is the most sought after and sold, the taste of Arabic taste has implications related to the reality of Arab reality, the reader can compensate for the lack of oxygen tournament in reality from life, or perhaps try to explain life changing in an accelerated way, as Paul Ricor says: It's only in the stories told. "In both scenarios, the thirst for heroism is known, whether the novelist is a criminal or a good man." Sometimes murder can triumph over evil, what Hegel calls the law of plunder.

If the novel is "the epic of the bourgeoisie", as George Lukac puts it, it imitates the nature of our postmodern era, in terms of the emergence of the immense wealth of some Arab peoples, without other peoples, leading to two contradictory things, but actually to two aspects of a presentation: money Seeking that satiety by satisfying appearances. The search for oneself and the eagle in the details of everyday life and the staff, as a way to the sense of freedom, far from official discourse, in an Arab world oppressed by repression and wars against the people by the people. dictatorships, so that it is not far from being a trend to the novel is also similar to the time The reader adhering to the dream world of the most precious, almost his life receives a hi goodbye.

Perhaps the convergence of Arab tastes with those of other countries of the world, not only in terms of appearance, food and habits prevalent in Arab countries, a reference to what may be called the globalization of nature, this Arab man who has known many wars and who knows and still lives in different forms, The Chinese to read the novels, not only to savor the Chinese dishes that have invaded the Arab world … Is it possible to say that the phenomenon of globalization has made literary taste so similar to the world? Is it healthy? Is the Arab man able to eat a quick meal and feel a real equality with a model that wants the highest and the highest?

* Palestine writer