The Mirage (Mahfouz novel)

The Mirage (Arabic السراب Al-Sarab) is a 1948 novel by Naguib Mahfouz.[1] The novel was filmed as al-Sarab (The Mirage) by Anwar al-Shinawi.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rasheed El-Enany Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning 2003 p. 61 113490584X "In Mirage (1948) Mahfouz takes a momentary break from old Cairo with its seedy streets to pay a visit to al-Manyal, a decent middle-class area in the south-west of the capital. With the change of habitat there comes naturally a change in the inhabitants: none of the poor company of Midaq Alley here, but a wealthy family of Turkish descent. Unlike in Khan al-Khalili and Midaq Alley, the war has no part here to play ..."
  2. ↑ Trevor Le Gassick Critical Perspectives on Naguib Mahfouz 1991 p172 0894106597 "The movie of al-Sarab (The Mirage) by Anwar al-Shinawi, succeeds in conveying the educational and critical moral of the novel. The weak directing, however, reduces its artistic effect, and the emphasis on its humorous dimensions fails to ."


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