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- Title
Vertigo d'Ahmed Mourad, un roman noir pour dépeindre les heures les plus sombres de l'Egypte.
- Authors
Matarneh, Mohammed
- Abstract
This article will hopefully be among the rare scholarly endeavors that have investigated the social aspects of le Roman Noir (noir fiction) in the Middle East, and its political engagement. Writers in the Arab world have abstained from writing noir fiction. However, Ahmed Mourad's realistic novel Vertigo has attracted broad readership thus paving the ground for establishing noir fiction as a newly emerging subgenre in the contemporary Middle East. In fact, readers have sympathized with the novel's protagonist quite easily. The noir narrative addresses the disturbing and critical socio-political situation in Egypt under the autocratic and authoritarian regime of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The novel contains all the elements of detective fiction or the noir fiction subgenre i.e., mainly the quest for truth and magic realism. The novel portrays the ruthlessness, degradation, and corruption of the political and economic circles in Egypt. The raw realism of the novel's literary style places it among contemporary realistic fiction.
- Subjects
EGYPT; NOIR fiction; MYSTERY fiction; LITERARY style; MODERN literature; POLITICAL corruption; FILM noir; MAGIC realism (Literature); MUBARAK, Hosni, 1928-2020
- Publication
Synergies Turquie, 2019, Issue 12, p151
- ISSN
1961-9472
- Publication type
Article