I saw what the sleeper sees

She covers her terrifying tyranny with generous breaths by which she silences the capable tongues, and practices pagan rituals in religion, yet despite her tyranny — she refuses — to find comfort in her internal loneliness with amulets and charms. This short story collection represents an important building block in the mural of Naguib Mahfouz's vision of life; in the story "People of Passion," Mahfouz presented the only child human with a blank page, and his behavior towards the world, and his dealings with it; in the story "My Fate and My Destiny," he expressed with a strange and unique plot the internal conflict within man between good and evil, and man's dilemma in accepting himself, making his fate pain not comfort; as for the story "In What the Sleep Sees," it consists of seventeen dreams, in which he addressed the stages of human life from birth to death.