The birds and the fall

Book name: The Quail and Autumn Author: A. Naguib Mahfouz Publisher: Al-Shorouk Number of pages: 170 Book genre: Novel Summary of the book: We consider death the peak of tragedy, yet the death of the living is a thousand times more terrible than the death of the dead. Eisa Al-Dabbagh, a young man belonging to a party whose role ended after the July 1952 Revolution, his life becomes confused after he is dismissed from his positions within the framework of the "Purification" movement in which July officers rid themselves of followers of the old regime. The novel "The Quail and Autumn" was first published in 1962 after the complete collapse of the monarchy's world and the stabilization of the new July 23 state. It revolves around the shock of sudden radical change that led to psychological paralysis of a man lost in the whirl of political and emotional upheavals. So how will Eisa Al-Dabbagh face the world while we all know that: "If a longing, foolishly, aspires to imagine the ability to change history." "We breathe corruption with the air, so how can we hope for a real hope to emerge from the swamp?" Cinema drew inspiration from the novel "The Quail and Autumn" for a film of the same name, directed by Hossam El-Din Mustafa in 1967, starring Mahmoud Morsi and Nadia Lotfi.