Studies in the short fiction of Mahfouz and Idris /
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1992.
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| Series: | New York University studies in Near Eastern civilization ;
no. 16. |
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Table of Contents:
- I.A brief survey of the development of the Arabic short story
- II. Naguib Mahfouz: the man and his art
- Biography
- A brief survey of Mahfouz's works
- The Cairo trilogy
- Neo-realism and Mahfouz's psychological novels and short stories
- Mahfouz and Ghali Shukri's Al-muntami
- Mahfouz's philosophy and place among world literatures
- III. An interpretation of the image and metaphor of death
- A recurrent existential motif in the stories of Hemingway, Idris, Mahfouz and Camus
- Yusuf Idris
- Existentialism and Arab thought
- Hemingway, Idris, Mahfouz and Camus at the crossraods of existentialsim
- Analysis of the treatment of death in selected short stories
- The search for the authentic self
- Life against death-A passion for life
- Unqualified death as the ultimate absurdity
- IV. Broken idols or the demise of abstractions
- The rebel with a cause: Revolt in the name of man
- A Sufi approach to existentialism
- Nihilism and the Nada concept in the work of Mahfouz and Hemingway
- Folktale: Technique and theme
- V. Eros and the quest for happiness
- Brief encounters: Love and initiation in the stories of Idris and Mahfouz
- The city as metaphor: Loss and alienation
- The image of woman and the search for a new identity
- No man is an island unto himself-The "other" and the need for self definition
- Love against loneliness: An existential assertion of life
- House of flesh: An extreme indictment of human want
- A compromise on the road to happiness
- VI. Conclusion.