Valentina DAmbrosio

Articolo della Rivista, Anno I, numero 1, giugno 2011

(The "2000 Generation" in Egypt: the voice of the young Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ al-‘Azab in the novel Sarīr al-rağul al-īṭālī) in La rivista di Arablit, a. I, n. 1, giugno 2011, pp. 35-52. Muḥammad Ṣalāḥ al-‘Azab is one of the most famous representatives of Egypt's New Generation of writers. Their literary production is characterized by a new kind of writing focusing on social problems, such as poverty, political corruption, religious hypocrisy and sexuality. al-‘Azab’s masterpiece is Sarīr al-rağul al-īṭālī, a novel criticized for the lustful manner in which sex is represented throughout the description of the two main [...]