The Gospel According to Adam
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| Author | Muhammad Aladdin |
|---|---|
| Original title | إنجيل آدم |
| Cover artist | Ahmad Al Lapad |
| Language | Arabic |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Merit Publishing House |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Publication place | Egypt |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 64 |
| ISBN | 977-351-283-5 |
| OCLC | 225057217 |
The Gospel According To Adam is a 2006 novel by Muhammad Aladdin, and has been published by Merit Publishing House in Egypt. It is his first novel followed by The Twenty-Second Day in 2007. Aladdin that he wrote the novel in two days, separated by 6 months, and that he did not change a word of it. it made Aladdin name in the Arabic literary scene, described it as a "tour de force". Because of it, and his entire body of work to date, Aladdin is often described as "an innovator in the Arabic literature".[1]
A young man walks a scorching Cairo street. At the entrance to the city's pivotal main square, he notices a succulent girl. Ineluctably drawn into her magnetic field, and the swirling, palpitating square ahead, he starts to fantasize about how he would talk to her, seduce her, rape her, love her, abandon her, cherish her were he, for example, a Brazen Rake, a Brutal Bohemian, a Sensitive Painter, or a Bald Mechanic, jumping from persona to persona as his imaginings become more and more feverish, while in his mind the girl goes through a similar series of transformations. These characters—a circus parade of Egypt's contemporary human menagerie—are not, however, mere dress-up costumes to be donned and discarded at their author's whim. They, and others who emerge from the side alleys of his mind, strut their stuff, accost one another, argue, and shout until eventually they leave him, on a scorching Cairo street, peering after an infinite succession of receding, parallel clamorous worlds, from whose possibilities he must draw his own conclusions.