Cultural bias towards narrating endings in Wassini Al-Araj's novel The Tale of the Last Arab

Abstract

In his artistic treatment, specifically in his narrative blog (The Story of the Last Arab), the novelist starts from a cosmic/universal idea, based on intellectual and philosophical statements about the concept of a system of endings, such as the end of man, the last man, the end of history, the end of the intellectual, the end of politics, the death of God... Etc., replacing the word “beginning” with the word “the end” to systematically indicate the surrounding pessimistic tendency represented by the futility of Arab civilization, which is now standing on the brink of collapse with man abandoning his historical concepts and his cultural incubator, linking his existence to worldly work, and beginning to preach a new reality represented by Western civilization with its American liberal democratic model that The novel participated in anticipating, creating, and crystallizing it within the psyche of the Orientalist writer who began to bet on the future of Western civilization and went beyond hinting at making a statement, setting the supposed time of the story in the year (2084). The “form of endings” is also one of the open semantic circles that reveal the depth of the writer’s cultural experience and the summary of his future vision of life - according to a dark, pessimistic vision - to announce in all frankness the end of the “solid rationalism” Arab civilization and the death of man linked to his cultural references and the transition to the space of fluid, latent rationality as the latent reference. The absolute, self-sufficient person. The narrative came to herald the emergence of modern man and his dissolution and solution in the new world order, and the material/natural system becomes the center around which existence revolves and in which he sees signs of goodness and hopes without talking about the glimmer of hope and the glimmer of salvation from this desertified reality collapsed with sterility and indifference, which is fading with the return to Heartbreak as he sighs the suffocating sigh of the end, mourning his afflicted reality because he is aware that the hour of salvation is far away and there are no signs of a bright new dawn or an imminent victory for man in the foreseeable future.