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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| instanceOf |
novel
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| adaptationCountry |
Egypt
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| adaptationMedium |
film
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| associatedWith |
Naguib Mahfouz Nobel Prize corpus
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| author |
Naguib Mahfouz
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| centralFemaleCharacter |
Zohra
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| countryOfOrigin |
Egypt
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| depictsHistoricalContext |
post-1952 Egyptian Revolution society
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| explores |
corruption and opportunism
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ideological conflict between leftists and conservatives → urban-rural tensions in Egypt → |
| firstPublicationDate |
1967
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| genre |
political novel
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realist novel → social novel → |
| hasAdaptation |
Miramar (film)
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| hasCharacter |
Amer Wagdi
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Hosny Allam → Mansour Bahy → Sarhan al-Beheiry → Tolba Marzuq → Zohra → |
| hasFemaleProtagonist |
true
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| hasMotif |
failed ideals of revolution
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memory and nostalgia → |
| hasSymbol |
boarding house as microcosm of Egyptian society
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| isRenowned |
true
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| languageScript |
Arabic script
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| literaryMovement |
Arabic literary realism
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| literarySignificance |
major work in modern Arabic literature
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| mainTheme |
class conflict
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disillusionment with revolution → gender relations → generational conflict → political change in post-revolutionary Egypt → social change in post-revolutionary Egypt → |
| narrativePerspective |
first-person narration
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| narrativeTechnique |
multiple narrators
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| originalLanguage |
Arabic
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| originalTitle |
ميرامار
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| partOfAuthorPeriod |
Naguib Mahfouz’s post-revolution phase
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| portrays |
impact of the 1952 revolution on different social classes
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| publisher |
Dar al-Maaref
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| settingCountry |
Egypt
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| settingLocation |
Alexandria
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| settingPlace |
boarding house
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| structure |
divided into sections narrated by different characters
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| timePeriodOfSetting |
1960s Egypt
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Naguib Mahfouz
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notableWork |