살라마 무사의 문학성에 대한 정의(아랍어)

Salama Musa's Definition on the Nature of Literature. Arubic Languuge und Literoture

This essay is a short attempt to figure out how Salama Musa, an Egyptian thinker. defined the nature of literature. Musa wrote a number of books and articles which dealt with the nature, function and language of literature. Among these subjects "What is literature?" is an essential starting point for any further literary argument. It is common view that literature is. basically, transformation of reality into something different. Throughout his life Musa defined the nature of literature in various ways. At the early stage he deviated from the common view to say that Mahmoud Taymour and Yousuf Idris' short stories were photocopy of the Egyptian society without imaginative make-up. In spite of being a well-known socilalist, Musa shifted repeatedly between the romantic school and the realist camp in defining literature. Sometimes he defined literature as expression of writer's feeling and sometimes he said that literature is reflection of the reality, following Marxist theories. Musa's comparison between literature and science which constitutes the fourth chapter reveals logical contrariety. He thought that literature is inferior to science because the former belongs to the heart and sentiment, and the latter results from the brain and objevtive contemplation. Or, the latter gives the human race more materials needed by them than the former does. In the comparison he resorted to the theories of psychology and evolution. However, his failure was that he weighed two things that can't be weighed by one single standard.