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Half a Day NaguibMahfous About the Author About the Author Name: NaguibMahfous纳吉布·马哈福兹 Nationality:Egyptian Dates: From Dec.1911 to Aug. 2006 Birthplace:an old quarter of Cairo Education: studied philosophyat auniversity of Cairo, graduating in 1934. Job: in university administration as a civil servant as a journalist（记者） Influence: 1st Arab to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988 described as a Dickens of the Cairo cafés and the Balzac of Egypt. Half of his novels have been made into films About the Author About the Author Works: no fewer than 30 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 200 articles the Cairo Trilogy in 1957 Children of Gebelawiin 1959 (Prize novel for the reason that who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind(他通过大量刻画入微的作品—洞察一切的现实主义，唤起人们树立雄心—形成了全人类所欣赏的阿拉伯语言艺术) the Thief and the Dogsin 1961《小偷与狗》 Small Talk on the Nile in 1966《尼罗河上的絮语》 About About the Half a Day First published in Arabic in 1989as part of a short story collection entitled The False Dawn. Included in an English-language collection entitled The Time and the Placein 1991. Belongs to his later phase and characterized by a shift from social realism to a more modern, experimental mode of writing. An allegorical taleimplicates a commentary on the human condition; an entire life span is experienced as only half a day in the school of life and also alludes to the cycle of life, whereby the narrator passes through childhood, middle age and old age in the course of one day. Uses a strategy commonly used in fiction writing –the protagonist returns after being absent for a short time to find everything changed beyond recognition. The best example is Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American writer, Washington Irving. This technique is often used to emphasize rapid changes in society. helplessThree PartsPara. 1-7: t helpless Three Parts Para. 1-7: the boy’s reluct