الموضوع: ما سر "الروعة" في افضل مائة رواية عالمية؟ دراسة بحثية
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والان مع سر الروعة في رواية:
62ـ الدم الحكيم،للمؤلف فلانري أوكونور.
Wise Blood is the first novel by American author Flannery O'Connor, published in 1952. The novel was assembled from several disparate stories first published in Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review, and Partisan Review. The first chapter is an expanded version of her Master's thesis, "The Train," and other chapters are reworked versions of "The Peeler," "The Heart of the Park," and "Enoch and the Gorilla."
The novel received little critical attention when it first appeared, but has since come to be appreciated as a somewhat unique work of "low comedy and high seriousness" with enduring if disturbing religious themes.[1][2]
Plot summary

Hazel Motes begins the novel having returned from serving in the Army, and he is travelling by train to the city of Taulkinham having just found his family home abandoned. His grandfather was a tent revival preacher, and Hazel himself is irresistibly drawn to wearing a bright blue suit and a black hat. He is told repeatedly that he "looks like a preacher," though he despises preachers.
In the United States Army, presumably during the Korean War era (when the book was published), Hazel came to the conclusion that the only way to escape sin is to have no soul. In Taulkinham, he first goes to the home of a Mrs. Leora Watts, a casual prostitute, who tells him "Mamma don't care if you ain't a preacher," and provides him services.
The next night, he comes across a street vendor hawking potato peelers and Enoch Emery, a sad and manic 18-year-old who was forced to come to the big city after his father abandoned him. The huckster is interrupted by a blind preacher, Asa Hawks, and his young daughter, Sabbath Lily Hawks. Motes finds the daughter eerie, and the preacher says that he has really been attracted to him for repentance. In attempted blasphemy, Hazel says, to Hawks, "My Jesus!" He turns to a crowd Hawks is attempting to reach and begins to announce his "church of truth without Jesus Christ Crucified," but no one seems to be listening.
Enoch Emery is attracted to Hazel's new "Church Without Christ," and together they follow Asa Hawks and his daughter, Sabbath Lily. Eventually Hazel Motes rents a room in the same place as the Hawks after becoming irritated that a preacher such as Asa Hawks wouldn't be interested in saving him. Ostensibly, Asa Hawks had blinded himself with lye, and his daughter is his only aid as he preaches the joys of redemption. It turns out, however, that Asa promised the public to blind himself and then did not, though he carries on as if he had. Hawks is not only lying about his blindness, he is a raptor who is preying upon those who pray. The pure daughter, Sabbath Lily, instead of being pure, has a wild sex drive, and she uses the semblance of purity and virginity to heighten her sexual allure. Asa encourages his daughter to seduce Hazel so that he can leave her with him, and Hazel initially intends to seduce her as well, but despite their mutual intentions their "relationship" is not initially consummated.
The Church Without Christ staggers along with Hazel as its only follower, until one day when a Christian evangelist named Hoover Shoats (his preaching name is "Onnie Jay Holy") adapts the message for himself, intending to use it as a moneymaking scheme where potential members have to pay a dollar to join the renamed Holy Church of Christ Without Christ. The new preacher explains, "It's based on your own personal interpitation (sic) of the Bible, friends. You can sit at home and interpit your own Bible however you feel in your heart it ought to be interpited." Hazel declines to participate in the scheme, instead watching as Shoats's church gains followers. Shoats hires a man as his "Prophet" who dresses and looks strikingly similar to Hazel.
Meanwhile, Enoch believes that he, like his father, has "wise blood" that tells him secrets about things. After hearing Hazel's message that the Church needs a "new Jesus," Enoch's blood tells him that a mummy in a museum is the one, and so he steals it. By this time, Hazel has discovered that Asa was not blind, and Asa has since left and Sabbath is living with Hazel. Enoch delivers the "new Jesus" to Sabbath, who cradles it in her arms like a baby, and when Hazel returns he destroys the corpse by throwing it against the wall of his room and then dropping the remains out the window into a pouring rain. Enoch later steals a gorilla costume from a man who had insulted him—and presumably Enoch stabs him and possibly kills him in the act—and puts it on, burying his old clothes in the woods. The novel's last image of Enoch is him approaching a couple in his gorilla suit, frightening them away.
Hazel watches as his rival, the Holy Church of Christ Without Christ, turn in a profit of $15 on its second day, Hazel then follows the "Prophet" on his way home and confronts him. He rams the man's car, which looks very much like Hazel's own car, pushing it into a ditch. He then orders the man to take off the blue suit, but before the man can finish, Hazel runs him over in his car, killing him, and backing over the body to make sure he is dead.
The next day, a policeman catches Hazel driving without a drivers permit while on his way moving to a new town. The policeman rolls Hazel's car over the embankment and the car is destroyed. Shortly after, Hazel blinds himself with lye and become somewhat of an ascetic. Hazel invests his passionate belief in suffering, blinds himself, sleeps with barbed wire around his chest, and puts stones and glass in his shoes. All of the money that Hazel receives from the government "because something was wrong with his insides" (a possible allusion to what is now called post traumatic stress disorder, possibly from WW II or the Korean War) he puts towards rent, all of his leftover money he literally throws away in his trash can. His landlady, Mrs. Flood, believes that she can take advantage of Hazel to make some money by marrying him and having him committed. However, just the opposite happens as she falls in love with him and becomes preoccupied with caring for him, but when she tells him of her plans for them to marry, he wanders off and is found 3 days later in a ditch just about dead. While being driven in the car of the police who found him, Hazel dies, presumably from the blow to the head which he received from the police and their "new" billy club. His body is taken back to Mrs. Flood, where she decides he can stay as long as he would like, and for free.