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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]

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  1. ^ Rasheed El-Enany, Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning, 2003, p.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 ."