TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahfouz,Najíb
AU  - Roberts,Nancy N.
TI  - The Mirage
T2  - Modern Arabic literature
SN  - 9789774162657 (hbk.)
AV  - PJ 7846 M214m 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cairo, New York
PB  - American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Mahfouz, Najib,
KW  - Autobiographical fiction
KW  - Arabic fiction
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Literatura arabe
N2  - "A psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ru'ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to cope with life's challenges. The internal torment and angst that dog him throughout his life and the tragic, ironic turns of events that overtake him as a young man are, to a great extent, the outworkings of his faulty upbringing. At the same time, they work together to drive home the novel's underlying theme: the illusory, undependable nature of the world in which we live and the call to seek, beyond the outward and the ephemeral, that which is inward and enduring. The narrative, full of pathos, draws the reader unwittingly into a vicarious experience of Kamil's agonies and ecstasies." -- Book jacket
ER  -