![]() It is said that the first to so name was Tamerlane, following the second massacre of Baghdad. ![]() The book starts Saeed's encounter with men from the outer space where he finds his 'exile', after he explains his family history, the origin of the Pessoptimists: For this word combines two qualities, pessimist and optimism, that have been blended perfectly in the characters of the members of our family since our first divorced mother, the Cypriot. This is a novel about the struggle of Palestine, conceptualized by Habiby which makes the reader question what is comic and what is tragic as Saeed questions his outlook on life. This is how Saeed, the comic hero of the Arab Israeli journalist Emile Habiby's novel The Secret Life of Saeed, The Pessoptimist (1974) defines his dilemma. So which am I, a pessimist or a an optimist? If harm befalls me during the day, I thank Him that it was no worse. ![]() When I awake each morning I thank the Lord he did not take my soul during the night. ![]() ![]() How do you differentiate between a pessimist and an optimist? I don't differentiate between optimism and pessimism and am quite at a loss as to which of the two characterizes me. ![]()
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