Reality and fiction in Mohammad Rabie’s novel, Otared

Authors

  • Amalia Mokrushina St. Petersburg State University, 7–9, Universitetskaya nab., St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu13.2018.106

Abstract

The article provides an overview of the modern Egyptian novel of Mohammad Rabie. It is a dystopian piece that presents an alternative story of events that could have taken place after the Egyptian Revolution that took place in the country in January 2011. Rabie draws a picture of Egypt in 2025. The main protagonist of the novel, a policeman called Ahmad Otared, or as he is also called Mercury, witnesses terrible changes happening in the country that lead up to lawlessness, murders and robberies.

Keywords:

Arabic literature, Egyptian literature, modern literature, novel, dystopia

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References

https://www.madamasr.com/ar/2016/04/24/feature (accessed: 31.08.2017)

http://www.aljazeera.net/news/cultureandart/2016/ (accessed: 23.06.2017)

http://www.arabicfiction.org/ar/node/594 (accessed: 23.06.2017)

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/books/2015/1/25/ (accessed: 31.08.2017)

Muhammad Rabi. Utarid (Mercury). At-tanwir, 2015, 304 p.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32610238-otared (accessed: 31.08.2017)

Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Востоковедение и африканистика

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Published

2018-03-21

How to Cite

Mokrushina, A. (2018). Reality and fiction in Mohammad Rabie’s novel, Otared. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 10(1), 68–74. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu13.2018.106

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Literary studies

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Articles of "Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies" are open access distributed under the terms of the License Agreement with Saint Petersburg State University, which permits to the authors unrestricted distribution and self-archiving free of charge.