Analytical Study: The Existential Predicament Perspective in Naguib Mahfouz’s Selected Novels

This paper aims at analyzing the selected novels of Naguib Mahfouz in the light of the existentialpredicament of ‘man’. Such predicament is manifested in the aspects of despair, frustration, andpoverty. The Characters in the novels play a significant role in displaying the sordid images ofthe modern futility of the conditions of the post-World War in Egypt. The paper assumes theexistentialism as a theory and topic to comment on the situation, hence the researcher conductsthe research within the existentialist theory. The texts that are selected in this paper are as follow,Midaq Alley, Cairo Trilogy, The Beggar, and The Thief and the Dogs.