Lawrences impact on naguib mahfouz and his novel al-sarab

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D.H.

Lawrence was a gifted and genius novelist with a deep psychological insight who unraveled subtle fabrics of human relationship through his novels.

He had a highly elevated poetic style which got epitomized occasionally into direct, vibrant and self explanatory design, compelling his readers to feel and believe him.

It is extraordinary 'peculiarity' which compels a celebrated critic like F.R.

Leaves to put him in the galaxy of "great tradition of English novelist".

A.

H.

Gomme (1978:8) points out : Lawrence is now, it may be safely assumed, a very extensively read author, at least so far as his novels are concerned, and he has become a main centre of critical industry in the world of academic English.(l) Lawrence might make use of his autobiography and self experience while writing Sons and Lovers ; Gomme (1978:31) while commenting on Jessie Chambers' "D.

H.

Lawrence : a Personal Record" states : This suggests that at one stage Lawrence was perhaps looking forward to writing a kind of semi-fictional autobiography.

To many people, to Jessie herself this is what, despite obvious departures from the factual record, Sons and Lovers became.

(2).

This paper will focus upon D.

H.

Lawrence and his novel sons and lovers and his influence on Mahfouz and his novel Al-Sarab.