Ghassan Kanfani Men in the Sun / Critique

Ghassan Kanfani Men in the Sun Critique .المحاضرة التاسعة تحليل رواية غسان كنفانى رجال فى الشمس
Men in the Sun is a novel by Palestinian writer and political activist Ghassan Kanafani, originally published in 1962.Men in the Sun follows three Palestinian refugees seeking to travel from the refugee camps in Iraq, where they cannot find work, to Kuwait where they hope to find work as laborers in the oil boom
The main theme of the novel is homelessness and death. It reflects the Palestinian cause, the 1948 catastrophe and its impact on the Palestinian people through four Palestinian men of different generations who tell their story in a wonderful symbolic way.
Abu Qais rests on damp ground while he considers leaving Basra and traveling to Kuwait in order to procure more money and a better education for his children. He has a son, Qais, and his wife bares a daughter as well. He is an older man and worries about the trip.
“Men in the sun” was written in 1962 and is one of Kanafani’s most admired and quoted works in modern Arabic fiction. The Novel takes place in a Refugee camp in Iraq. Three men that had lived through the Nakba are trying to find a better life. Through their journey, they meet a man named Abul.
Abul can smuggle them across the border of Kuwait. In Kuwait that would get a job and be able to send money back home to their family. On the journey to Kuwait, they had to travel through the desert that was extremely hot during that particular time of the year. Abul and the three men followed in a pickup truck with a metal tank in the back. While they passed the checkpoints the three men would hide in the tank.
The heat inside the tank was unbearable. The men made it through the first checkpoint, but at the second one, Abul got stuck in conversion with one of his old friends that worked at the checkpoint. As hard as he tried to end the conversation the security guard wouldn’t let him go. Eventually, Abul was able to leave but it was too late. The three men couldn’t survive the heat in the metal tank.

Men In The Sun has been translated from Arabic to English by Hilary Kilpatric. I am not sure if it can be found in every library, but I was able to find it at American University’s library. The novel also inspired a film named ‘The Dupes’ directed by Tawfiq Saleh.

The main theme of the novel is its talk of homelessness and death. It reflects the Palestinian cause, the events of the Nakba of 1948, and its impact on the Palestinian people through four Palestinian men of different generations who tell their story in a wonderful symbolic way.
Displacement
Symbolism
The Desert
The Tank
The Death
Department of English/ Al Aqsa University /Gaza Strip
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