Miramar

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Miramar is a renowned novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that portrays social and political change in post-revolutionary Egypt through multiple narrators in a shared Alexandria boarding house.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
adaptationCountry Egypt
adaptationMedium film
associatedWith Naguib Mahfouz Nobel Prize corpus
author Naguib Mahfouz
centralFemaleCharacter Zohra
countryOfOrigin Egypt
depictsHistoricalContext post-1952 Egyptian Revolution society
explores corruption and opportunism
ideological conflict between leftists and conservatives
urban-rural tensions in Egypt
firstPublicationDate 1967
genre political novel
realist novel
social novel
hasAdaptation Miramar (film)
hasCharacter Amer Wagdi
Hosny Allam
Mansour Bahy
Sarhan al-Beheiry
Tolba Marzuq
Zohra
hasFemaleProtagonist true
hasMotif failed ideals of revolution
memory and nostalgia
hasSymbol boarding house as microcosm of Egyptian society
isRenowned true
languageScript Arabic script
literaryMovement Arabic literary realism
literarySignificance major work in modern Arabic literature
mainTheme class conflict
disillusionment with revolution
gender relations
generational conflict
political change in post-revolutionary Egypt
social change in post-revolutionary Egypt
narrativePerspective first-person narration
narrativeTechnique multiple narrators
originalLanguage Arabic
originalTitle ميرامار
partOfAuthorPeriod Naguib Mahfouz’s post-revolution phase
portrays impact of the 1952 revolution on different social classes
publisher Dar al-Maaref
settingCountry Egypt
settingLocation Alexandria
settingPlace boarding house
structure divided into sections narrated by different characters
timePeriodOfSetting 1960s Egypt

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Naguib Mahfouz
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