The Implied Author in Naguib Mahfouz's 'Yumeet wa Yuhyi' (Death and Resurrection)

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Faculty of Arts – Beni-Suef University

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 In this paper, the researcher attempts to study the idea of the implied author in Naguib Mahfouz’s 'Yumeet wa Yuhyi' (Death and Resurrection). The researcher discusses the implied author according to  the theory of reading in the writings of the American theorist Wayne C. Booth, especially in his books The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), A Rhetoric of Irony (1974), and The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1988). The emphasis is on the vision of the implied author that the reader infers during the process of reading. The reader creates an imaginary picture of the implied author, reads between lines to understand the intended meaning of the presupposed author; immerses himself in his world, and lives with the characters. The reader grasps the implied author’s perspective that is expressed through the multiple voices, known as characters, that the implied author uses as masks. Mahfouz was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialism, which was the spark of thinking about the reader and the author. If Sartre’s existentialism posed questions about the individual’s existence, whether it should be free or enslaved, literary critics, like Wayne C. Booth concentrated instead on the existence of a reader and even an implied author in the text.

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