Farah bin Antun bin Ilyas Antun ( Arabic: فرح بن أنطون بن إلياس أنطون ) ( 1874 , Tripoli , Lebanon - July 3, 1922 , Cairo , Egypt ) - Arabic writer .
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Biography
In 1890 he graduated from the Orthodox Kefta School in Lebanon.
In 1897 he settled in Egypt .
In 1899 - 1906 , the magazine Al-Jamia was published in Alexandria , which contributed to the formation of secular ideology in the culture of Egypt.
One of the first in the New Arab culture, called for the rejection of blindly following the traditions of classical literature, preaching the principles of French romanticism. In the utopian novels "Religion, Knowledge, and Capital, or Three Cities" (1901), "The Beast! The Beast! The Beast!" (1903) and "New Jerusalem" (1905) the philosophical and religious teachings of J. E. Renan combined with eclectically accepted ideas of the French Enlightenment, Utopians and K. Marx.
World fame as an author brought the work "Ibn Rushd and his philosophy" (1903).
The author of the first in Egypt original social drama “Egypt is new and Egypt is old” (1913), in which he portrays the “hero of the new Egypt”, an energetic, strong-willed, active person - that force that opposes the old, decaying, passive Egypt, which obeyed Western influence, ignoring genuine cultural values. [four]
Known for translating into Arabic the works of Omar Khayyam, L. N. Tolstoy and M. Gorky.
The nephew of Farah Antun was Charles Malik .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 119549166 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Nationalencyklopedin - 1999.
- ↑ Dolinina A.A. Egyptian literature [at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries] // History of World Literature. - T. VIII. - M., 1994, p. 676.
Literature
- Dagger Assad. Sources for the study of literature. - Beirut, 1956, p. 147-149. (In Arabic).
- Krachkovsky I.Yu. Op. - T. III. - M. - L., 1956.
- Borisov V.M. Modern Egyptian prose. - M., 1961.
- Krymsky A.E. History of the new Arabic literature. - M., 1971, p. 642-662.
- Dolinina A. A. Essays on the History of Arabic Literature of the New Age. - M., 1973, p. 158-244.
- Kotsarev N.K. Writers of Egypt. - M., 1975, p. 54-56.