Theory of Fernanda

Chapter 1 Passage Nabawiyya. Ilish. Your two names merge in my mind. For years you will have been thinking about this day, never imagining, all the while, that the gates would ever actually open. You'll be watching now, but I won't fall into the trap. At the right moment, instead, I'll strike like Fate. And Sana? What about Sana?  As the thought of her crossed his mind, the heat and the dust, the hatred and pain all disappeared, leaving only love to glow across a soul as clear as a rain-washed sky.  I wonder how much the little one even knows about her father? Nothing, I suppose. No more than this road does, these passers-by or this molten air. She had never been out of his thoughts, where bit by bit she'd taken shape, like an image in a dream, for four long years. Would luck now give him some decent place to live, where such love could be equally shared, where he could take joy in being a winner again, where what Nabawiyya and Ilish had done would be no mor...

How, why, and to what effect does Mahfouz use stream-of-consciousness narration in the novel? ‘Stream of consciousness’ is a literary technique in which authors are able to portray a character’s reaction and interpretations of their surroundings through the use of internal dialogue, which runs parallel to the plot of a novel that uses third person omniscient narration. Through the utilization of this technique, the readers are effectively immersed in the protagonist’s thoughts, getting uncensored access to the deepest thoughts of the character’s mind and a sensation of getting lost within the plot of the novel.  Arabic author and adaptor of psychological realism, Naguib Mahfouz uses stream of consciousness in his novel The Thief and The Dogs. This portrayed an effective rejection of the panoramic narration that was entailed in romanticism. Mahfouz applied this technique to dive deep into the Psyche of protagonist Said Mahran, who having arrived to a post-post-Revolution...