Amir Butt's List: Literature

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  The novel ends with a beautiful and so influential paragraph that tries to raise the question of why the 3 men (main figures of the novel) did not try to knock on the walls of their symbolic prison (a tank of a lorry)?.
• "Why?", the "Why" of Kanafani is a question for all time: why did not the oppressed people reject the abject reality? Why did not they fight for their life and freedom? Could it be that they were so hopeless and tired? Were they so afraid from going back to the occupied home? Did they prefer the freedom of death to the prison of life?. The questions were asked by Kanafani in the past to project on present exprience and to reflect the suffer of the palestinean-age on the future memory.

• The Chairs
• The Chairs: Critical Overview

• When The Chairs debuted in Paris in 1952, many critics did not know what to make of the play. A few praised the production. Reneé Saurel (quotT ed by Rosette C. Lamont in her Ionesco’s Imperatives: The Politics of Culture) believes the play is ‘‘hauntingly beautiful and perfectly structured under its surface of incoherence.’’

   

  Most critics were not as kind. Some regarded it as too strange. Others were just confused. A contemporary critic quoted in Ruby Cohn’s From Desire to Godot: Pocket Theatr

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• Introduction   to Modern Literary Theory

• Is any one out there? by Dr. Wazir Agha

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