Mahmoud Teymur`s novel ’Man Minna al-Wagd?’ as an Example of Egyptian Realistic Novel

Student: Ter-saakova Anastasiia

Faculty: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Educational Programme: Asian Studies (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2018

Throughout the 19-20 centuries, Egyptian literature underwent significant changes. The increase in cultural contacts with Western literature, social and cultural changes at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the development of the press had a significant impact on the views of the intellectuals, which led to a change in artistic consciousness, manifested in the change in genre forms of literature and the emergence of a new genre, the Egyptian realistic novel.The recognized master and reformer of the genre is Mahmud Teymur, whose work became the object of this study. Features of his artistic method are analyzed on the example of the story "Man Minna al-Wagd?" His views on the Arabic language and literature have also been studied.

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