Tawfiq al-Hakim or Tawfik el-Hakim (Arabic: 鬲賵賮賷賯 丕賱丨賰賷賲鈥� Tawf墨q al-岣k墨m) was a prominent Egyptian writer. He is one of the pioneers of the Arabic novel and drama. He was the son of an Egyptian wealthy judge and a Turkish mother. The triumphs and failures that are represented by the reception of his enormous output of plays are emblematic of the issues that have confronted the Egyptian drama genre as it has endeavored to adapt its complex modes of communication to Egyptian society.
So, here's the thing. You've read, but you haven't finished it. You've understood everything, yet you comprehend nothing. It ends where it starts, and it starts where it ends, in a way that it reminds me of Beckett's "Endgame" and "Waiting for Godot".
The dialogues are very profound, very philosophic, very incomprehinsible yet very clear. The reader is in a dream-like world in which one can't escape, wake up, or understand what's going on, yet one is fully aware of what's happening.
Abou the Lizard thing, I find it very symbolic, some how, the Lady and the Lizards lives walk in a paralell sort of way, but unfortunately, I can't comprehend the significance.. YET.
I'm delighted to read an fully "Absurd" representative text by an Egyptian author.
Surreal, translates the antimony of the human soul with such captivating artistic style, tho vague and incomprehensible, but the play is meant to be like that. 丕賵賱 賰鬲丕亘 丕賯乇丕賴 賱鬲賵賮賷賯 丕賱丨賰賷賲貙 賵 賱賲 丕賰賳 丕鬲禺賷賱 賲丿賷 賵爻毓 禺賷丕賱賴 賵 亘乇丕毓鬲賴 丕賱丕丿亘賷丞.
Brilliant! Absurd theater at its best! Created a time loop, made the characters question their own existence and contemplate reality. Quite similar themes to Waiting for Godot. Unbelievably satisfied and my mind is blown after reading this.