Lawrences impact on naguib mahfouz and his novel al-sarab

Abstract EN

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.

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This paper will focus upon D.

H.

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