![]() Pangloss in Voltaire’s Candide, “the best of all possible worlds” nor is it as gloomy as Schopenhauer’s philosophical pessimism. It’s his family’s way of thinking about the world, a little bit of optimism mixed with a touch of pessimism. ![]() As a contradistinct Candide, Saeed calls himself and his family pessoptimists. Saeed’s life is one of inconsequence and random opportunism. Saeed eventually gains an advantage, working for the Israelis and living in Israel He falls in love with Yuaad, whose name means “it shall be repeated.” He loses her apparently, she dies after been deported by the Israelis. ![]() In The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist by Emile Habiby, a Palestinian illegally gains re-entry into Israel after the deportation of Palestinian refugees in 1948. ![]()
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