Social icon element need JNews Essential plugin to be activated.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
  • Login
Literary Reviews
  • Home
  • OUR BOOK SHOP
    • Erotic Novels
    • BEST SELLING BOOKS
    • Science Fiction Books
    • Business and Management
    • Computing and IT
    • Cooking
    • Education
    • Religion & Spirituality
    • Self Help
    • Teens & Young Adults
  • Literary Review
  • Literature
  • Book Writing
  • Kindle Publishing
  • Romantic
  • Science Fiction
  • Cooking
  • MORE
    • Erotic
    • Mysteries, Thrillers
    • Literary Themes
    • Business and Management
    • Literary Agents
    • Literary Devices
    • New Books
    • Self Help
    • Teens & Young Adults Novels
    • Computing and IT
    • Education
    • Religion & Spirituality Novels
No Result
View All Result
Literary Reviews
Home Literary Review

Book Review – When life becomes redundant – Books

admin by admin
December 24, 2020
in Literary Review
0
Book Review – When life becomes redundant – Books
0
SHARES
5
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

[ad_1]


AlKatebat walwehda (Women-writers and loneliness), Nora Naguie (Cairo: Dar El-Shorouk), pp11


It is not clear what novelist Nora Naguie was planning when she wrote AlKatebat walwehda (Women-writers and loneliness) that was published by El-Shorouk in 2020. The author might have wanted this small and intense book to serve as a selection of mini-literary biographies of a group of women writers who almost all bond through the manifestations of pain that is so severe to the extent that it breaks the soul and prompts a deep, at times urgent, wish for vanishing.


Naguie might have equally wanted her book to serve as documentation of the writings that offered these women an escape from the tumultuous thoughts and sentiments that had enslaved them for life and to the point of death. However, it is also possible that Naguie wanted her readers to come face to face with an attempt to break the silence.


Naguie is actually breaking the silence about her own captivating depression that had at times driven her too close to ending her life. In doing so, the author, who is also a novelist, is almost hiding behind the equally agonising lives other women writers had: Enayat ElZayyat, Eman Merssal, Valery Solanas, Elena Ferrante, Mai Goubran, Aroah Saleh and Virginia Woolf.


Naugie is going a step further to break the silence about what she calls “one of the biggest taboos” — the disconnect that some women have with the children they carry in their swollen wombs while their souls are broken. She admits to a sense of guilt she felt for having failed to feel or love her own child during nine months of pregnancy. But in so doing she is talking about the unease that many of the women authors she chose to write about felt about pregnancy and motherhood.


Most of Naguie’s women authors have gone from abusive households into abusive relationships to end up with feeling abused by motherhood. Naguie herself does not venture much into the corridors of her own childhood and adolescence, except when she reveals, in a chapter on Nawal Saadawi, one of the most famous names associated with feminism in Egypt, that she was so lucky to escape the atrocity of female genital mutilation thanks to an open-minded father.


In her introduction, however, Naguie speaks quite abruptly of an unhappy marriage that took her away from everything she knew and left her with a child that she wanted so much to want and a sense of guilt that she divorced and became the parent that this child had to mostly depend on.

Short link:

 



[ad_2]

Related posts

Book Review: ‘The Bench,’ by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex

Book Review: ‘The Bench,’ by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex

June 11, 2021
Literary/Film Influences Temper the Glorious Chaos of ‘Loki’

Literary/Film Influences Temper the Glorious Chaos of ‘Loki’

June 11, 2021
Tags: BOOKBooksLiferedundantREVIEW
Previous Post

In defence of Literary ‘Snobbery’.

Next Post

More Social Media Use Tied to New Depression Over Six Months

Next Post
More Social Media Use Tied to New Depression Over Six Months

More Social Media Use Tied to New Depression Over Six Months

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

RELATED PRODUCTS

  • THE SNUFFBOX MURDERS an enthralling crime mystery full of twists (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries Book 16) THE SNUFFBOX MURDERS an enthralling crime mystery full of twists (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries Book 16) £1.99
  • Larousse Gastronomique Larousse Gastronomique £45.99
  • Be Your Own Best Friend: The Glorious Truths of Being Female Be Your Own Best Friend: The Glorious Truths of Being Female £7.39
  • The Business Analysis Handbook: Techniques and Questions to Deliver Better Business Outcomes The Business Analysis Handbook: Techniques and Questions to Deliver Better Business Outcomes £28.65
  • The House on Half Moon Street: A Richard and Judy Book Club 2019 pick (Leo Stanhope 1) The House on Half Moon Street: A Richard and Judy Book Club 2019 pick (Leo Stanhope 1) £4.53

PRODUCT CATEGORIES

  • Best Selling Books
  • Erotic
  • Science Fiction Books
  • Cooking
  • Business and Management
  • Education
  • Computing and IT
  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Teens & Young Adults
  • Self Help
  • Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense
  • Romance Books

Recent News

  • The Recorder – New books ‘popping up’ at Cushman Library in Bernardston
  • 8 of the Best Romantic Novels About Breakups
  • Studio B Combines Visual, Literary Art in “My Favorite Things: Beauties Are Joys Forever”

Category

  • Book Writing
  • Business and Management
  • Computing and IT
  • Cooking Books
  • Education
  • Erotic
  • Kindle Publishing
  • Literary Agents
  • Literary Devices
  • Literary Review
  • Literary Themes
  • Literature
  • Mysteries, Thrillers & Suspense
  • New Books
  • Religion & Spirituality
  • Romantic Novels
  • Science Fiction
  • Self Help
  • Home
  • OUR BOOK SHOP
  • Literary Review
  • Literature
  • Book Writing
  • Kindle Publishing
  • Romantic
  • Science Fiction
  • Cooking
  • MORE

© 2020 literaryreviews

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • OUR BOOK SHOP
    • Erotic Novels
    • BEST SELLING BOOKS
    • Science Fiction Books
    • Business and Management
    • Computing and IT
    • Cooking
    • Education
    • Religion & Spirituality
    • Self Help
    • Teens & Young Adults
  • Literary Review
  • Literature
  • Book Writing
  • Kindle Publishing
  • Romantic
  • Science Fiction
  • Cooking
  • MORE
    • Erotic
    • Mysteries, Thrillers
    • Literary Themes
    • Business and Management
    • Literary Agents
    • Literary Devices
    • New Books
    • Self Help
    • Teens & Young Adults Novels
    • Computing and IT
    • Education
    • Religion & Spirituality Novels

© 2020 literaryreviews

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In