Journal Article

Die Frau bei Heinrich Böll und Nagib Mahfuz in Ausgewählten Werken

صادق، علي سلمان

2021

Overview

The research deals with women in the works of Heinrich Böll and Najib Mahfuz in a comparative study. So, in many cultures woman plays a very important role. In the past, she had predominantly traditional tasks in the West and also in the Arab world. For example, she took care of the children and their education patients and old people prepared food for the family, clothing, etc. she was economically and socially dependent on man. Religion, society and the economic crisis were influencing. She took a significant part in works of many writers by being portrayed as a lover or heroine. After the Second World War, German writers have thematized the ruins of the war, as well as the suffering of the German people. This work deals with the investigation of female figures in the works of Heinrich Böll and Najib Mahfuz. Although they belong to different eras and cultures, both authors presented their experiences in their works. They show resistance of women to the norms of society. Böll presented it through his life experience and war experience or resistance to the existing morality. He shows the problems of women in the postwar period of the 1950s and criticizes the church, which captivated woman through its teachings. Heinrich Böll and Mahfuz were the most important writers. Both writers became well-known authors after the Second World War and worte their works in the context of realism. They also received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Bötl criticizes the Catholic Church in his works. Mahfuz was existentialist. His novel The Children of our neighborhood provoked protests from conservative Islamic circles because the work was considered blasphemy. So, both authors had to deal with religions. In addition, the two authors Böll and Mahfuz dealt with the consciousness of the woman. So, we can make a comparative work between the two authors. Although the works of Böll and Mahfuz have many differences, there are also some similarities. Their treatment of the subject of woman is explained by means of different works. It is about the serious social and economic circumstances woman has experienced. Heinrich Böll has portrayed the suffering of the German woman after the Second World War. He shows traces of the war and suffering of humanity, which was destroyed. Najib Mahfuz has also shown the sufferings of the Egyptian woman because of poverty and corruption and economic conditions. He has expressed his magical world through the artistic form. His novel creativity is to be noted in the structure and fonn of art fiction and artistic honesty. Mahfuz writes in classical Arabic. He is committed to giving classical Arabic a kind of life and bringing it closer to people and to escape difficult words. He considers the vernacular as a defect. Boll's language was simple, clear and precise. His style is too experimental, not innovative. We try in this research to clarify the role of the female figures in the two authors Mahfuz and Böll. Böllls characters like Leni in the novel \"Gruppenbild mit Dame\" and Kate in the novel Und sagte kein einziges Wort are to be compared to female figures of Mahfuz like Amina \"in the Cairo Trilogy, Between the Palaces 1956, Palace of Desire 1957, Roman Zuckergäßchen 1957 and Hamida in the novel Midaq- Gasse. Similarities and differences between the two authors are shown. Significant results have been reached in this Study.

• Publisher: جامعة عين شمس - مركز بحوث الشرق الأوسط
• Subject: إبراهيم، نجيب محفوظ عبدالعزيز، ت. 2006 م / الأدب الألماني / الأدب العربي / بول، هاينرش، ت. 1985 م / صورة المرأة