Of this party is the conservative woman of letters "Bint al-Shati'"... She believes, and declares openly, that what they call "candid literature" is ill breeding, not literature... that it is a new way of committing suicide by literature... And Bint al-Shati' believes that singing of love, and expressing it in a beautiful style, is the loftiest form of literature... but when the writer oversteps the bound into arousing the animal instincts, the writing becomes disgraceful, and literature becomes absurdity and vice!
At the Story Club the subject was taken up in analysis and debate by the writers Yusuf al-Siba'i, Louis Awad, Amin Yusuf Ghurab, and Ahmad Ali Bakathir... The talks were followed by comments from Abd al-Halim Abdullah and Anwar Ahmad, and then Dr. Yusuf Idris, who mounted the platform saying that only minutes before he had been listening to the news bulletin, with reports of the disturbances raging through Jordan, and then the text of the new memorandum issued on the ending of the Canal crisis... He marveled at these incongruities... People are in an uproar over world events crowding one upon another... and here is a session to discuss "candid literature"... And he went on: What use is a session like this, held for three hours to discuss subjects that have no connection, near or far, with our lives...
And this time it was I who was astonished... astonished that such a man believes literary gatherings should be held to discuss not
literary subjects but political ones...
I wondered that such a man believes literature must fall silent and dumb when politics speaks...
Did I not say that politics
possesses the Egyptians... and overruns their lives... even in the literary salons and social circles!?
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