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# The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail

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## Customer Reviews

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    Three tales of post revolutionary Egypt
  

*by H***K on Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2006*

The Beggar is the story of lawyer Omar al-Hamzawi who belongs to the generation that could have provided Egypt with leadership but have instead been deprived of any significant function. Omar fails to care enough at the right time because he belongs to a liberal secularism which is simply an operative ideal or yearning. The novel is a plea against irrelevance and alienation. It is also about things which matter and matter in places outside the Arab world.The Thief and the Dogs is a psychological novel of the impressionist kind - it uses the stream-of-consciousness technique like novels by James Joyce or Virginia Woolf - which moves with the speed and economy of a detective story. The technique allows the author to show the mental anguish of the central character, Said Mahran, who is consumed by bitterness and a desire for revenge against the individuals and the society who have corrupted and destroyed him and brought his damnation. It gives the reader a keen observation of the workings of a sick and embittered mind doomed to self-destruction. As he comes to Said's disillusionment and despair, the reader gains interesting impressions of the values and structures of Egyptian society in the 1960s.Autumn Quail opens with the famous Cairo fire which followed the massacre of Egyptian policemen at the Suez Canal by British soldiers in 1952. It goes on to trace the main events of the early stages of the revolution, the purge of corrupt officials and the abolition of political parties and comes to an end after the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company in 1956. The central character whose fall is portrayed is Isa ad-Dabbagh, a senior civil servant in the Egyptian government during the final days of the monarchy. Isa's willingness to accept bribes catches up with him and he is pensioned off. But Isa remains stubbornly loyal to the old regime and his concern for his country makes him a true patriot. But his relationship with the Alexandrian prostitute Riri represents Isa's real fight with emotion, his failure to meet his moral responsibilities and his eventual realisation through a very bitter lesson of what those responsibilities are. The novel provides the reader with insights and reflections on the Egyptian revolution and its progress with characters from different backgrounds and with varying social and political attitudes.

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    Hope and disillusionment in post-revolutionary Egypt
  

*by U***E on Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2006*

This is a collection of three short stories (novellas) written by the Nobel Prize winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz.  All three are set in 1950s Egypt.  Mahfouz is best known for his Cairo Trilogy, but this collection is equally outstanding.  The highlight on the back cover perfectly describes the three stories:  ``. . . together these novels render a rich, nuanced, and universally resonant vision of Egyptian society of the period.''. This is an wonderful collection that will be of interest to potential readers, I believe, at two levels.  First, Mahfouz perfectly captures the spirit of hope, uncertainty, and disillusionment in an Egypt that is undergoing massive political and cultural change.  These novellas represent a window into the social and cultural history of Egypt in the 1950s.  As the introduction describes, these three novels are a thinly disguised commentary on the Egyptian government and its failure to live up to the hopes and promises of 1952.  Beyond Egypt, however, most readers will relate to these stories as they are, to a greater or lesser degree, about living with and coping with change.  It is this latter aspect which makes these stories timeless and of general interest.  These stories are about distinguishing what is from what we would like from what is possible, and acceptance or resistance to the way things are.  This is great literature from a great writer and highly recommended.

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    Of the 3, The Thief and the Dogs is the best
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2019*

If you want to sample Mahfouz's prose without going headlong into a tome, then The Thief and the Dogs is a great start. Action packed from the minute it begins, it's a very fine piece of writing, with no clear sense of direction, so it keeps you motivated to read on to the very end. I now know why he won the Nobel Prize: this man can write!

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