The Crime (Mahfouz book)

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Al-jarima (الجريمة "The Crime") is a 1973 collection of short stories and a short play by Naguib Mahfouz. The collection contains both crime and absurdist stories.[1]

References

  1. Rasheed El-Enany Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning 2003 - Page 209 113490584X "In retrospect, The Crime was largely to mark the end of the absurdist connection in Mahfouz's career.51 After The Crime there was to be a lull in the publication of short stories for a period of about five years, during which Mahfouz produced five ."