Idris, Yusuf - Mona Mikhail (essay date 1979)
Mona Mikhail (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: Mikhail, Mona. “Love and Sex: A Study of the Short Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz and Yusuf Idris.” In Images of Arab Women: Fact and Fiction, pp. 91-111. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, Inc., 1979.
[In the following essay, Mikhail finds parallels in the portrayal of sex and love in the short stories of Idris and Naguib Mahfouz.]
The short stories of Naguib Mahfouz and Yusuf Idris, and indeed a great many stories of other Egyptian writers, do not present any systematic love ethic by which they can be characterized or measured. They tend to embody perhaps more of a romantic yearning for absolutes than a traditional notion of love. The romantic treatment of love has been, as it were, exhausted by such writers as Ihsan‘Abd Al-Quddus and others whose versions have been interpreted by all the means of mass media, radio, television, and cinema.
A large portion of Idris' early stories deal...
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