The dialectic of connection and separation in love in the novel of “The Other thing”/ who killed Laila El Hayek?” by the novelist Ghassan Kanafani

Abstract

This study stops at the dialectic of connection and separation in love in the novel of “The Other Thing’/”who Killed Laila El Hayek?” by the Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani. It unlocks this dialectic starting off from the complexity with the view that love in the literature of Ghassan Kanafani at the personal level /men and women disappear in the lives of the characters of the novels and the short stories for the sake of major issues/the greatest love/the love of Palestine. This study addresses this novel into two main parts: the first part is the dialectic of connection and separation in love. The second part is the dialectic of connection and separation in the debate and the game of choices in the detective novel. It resorts also to disjoin the linguistic and narrative architecture of the dialectic of connection and separation in this novel towards creating a conception of the visions, the ideas, the convictions and the messages it carries. It takes it out of individual experience to relate it to the Palestinian cause as a whole. Love between men and women in Kanafani’s work, has its special form as it was influenced by his philosophy, suffering and his experience in life. As love wore the robes of his ideas and he spoke on his own behalf and on behalf of the suffering of the whole Palestinian people. He also realised the images of his humanity and creativity with all its requirements, forms, requests, looks and visions all together.