Life from the Prism of Death: Life Narratives of the Old in three novels | ||
| Cairo Studies in English | ||
| Article 6, Volume 2023, Issue 1, August 2023, Pages 46-61 PDF (428.76 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/cse.2023.258127.1147 | ||
| Author | ||
| Lamis Ragaa Al Nakkash* | ||
| Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The paper deals with three novels that present life narrative in the face of death. The main character in the three novels is a man in his seventies facing different forms of death, while his own approaching death is looming, leading to a kind of reassessment of his whole life. The three novels studied are: Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal (2002), Andre Brink’s Before I Forget (2005), and Adel Esmat’s The Commandments (2018) (in Arabic). It is an intense dramatically loaded moment in life that has been artistically used for its power to provide a distinct point of view on the life narrative of the protagonist. It is a moment of revaluation that possibly changes much of one’s revered and established values. Although one would not classify these narratives as a distinctive and independent sub genre within life writings, yet they do share distinctive traits that makes studying them as a corpus of works productive. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Memory; Loss and change; Andre Brink; Adel Esmat; Philip Roth | ||
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