Mostafa Chakib

Anecdotes of Misers Mostafa Chakib

The specificity of the Arab Anecdote, is a relation of spontaneity, without psychoanalysis of the person, a lenient text reflecting the desire to let all taking part in pleasure and humor. Arab storytellers, in Stories of misers, aim leisure and dream, putting forward features of an amusing personality, without offending or stigmatizing. However on the contrary, these misers enjoy rather empathy and pity, the ultimate aim is the amusement of the reader while preserving the status of the miser. The author wounds this personality by no means, making fun slightly on it, inviting the other-reader to laugh creating joy and pleasure. It is true that the avarice is a non-acceptable quality, but the great author describes this quality in a comic way, to sympathize with the personality, inviting it to correct his behavior, and to come back to the group. Arab anecdote of misers was popular among people, and was an amusing subject of writers, especially when anecdote joins together the personality of the miser and that of the greedy one; the scene becomes a conflict between the two; while one declines, the other wishes, creating situations causing rapture and laughter.