• Original research article
  • November 30, 2015
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ARTISTIC ORIGINALITY OF THE NOVEL BY ALAA AL-ASWANY “CHICAGO”

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of the novel “Chicago” written in 2006 by the modern Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany. The authors examine the themes, problems, system of images and language of the personages. They conclude that the social novel “Chicago” reveals the most relevant problems of modernity: East - West, man and power, feminism, discrimination.

References

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Author information

Tat'yana Anatol'evna Vavichkina

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Yuliya Evgen'evna Vlasova

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

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Publication history

  • Published: November 30, 2015.

Keywords

  • арабский реализм
  • социальный роман
  • проблема противостояния Восток-Запад
  • проблема гегемонии развитых стран над развивающимися
  • проблема противостояния человека и общества
  • проблема расовой дискриминации
  • проблема поисков счастья
  • проблемы феминизма
  • проблема вседозволенности
  • система образов-двойников
  • сюжетные линии
  • Arabic realism
  • social novel
  • problem of opposition East -West
  • problem of hegemony of the developed countries over the developing
  • problem of confrontation of a human being and society
  • problem of racial discrimination
  • problem of finding happiness
  • problems of feminism
  • problem of permissiveness
  • twin images system
  • story lines

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