The years of Naguib Mahfouz, the beginnings and the ends

Author's name: Mohamed Shaeer Publisher: Al-Shorouk Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2021 Literary classification: Literary criticism Brief about the book: Many times, Naguib Mahfouz spoke about his influence by "Taha Hussein," to the extent that he wrote his childhood autobiography in the late twenties of the last century in a long text called (The Years), inspired by the title from "The Days" by the Dean, and for many years, what Mahfouz wrote remained lost until the writer and researcher "Mohamed Shaeer" finally found it after a fascinating search, having traveled the text across four different continents; it went out from Egypt to America, then to London, until it finally settled in one of the Arab countries. Through this work, which is published for the first time along with other texts and documents, Shaeer excels in writing a parallel biography of "Naguib Mahfouz's childhood," reaching through deep literary reading that this text is like a nucleus shattered in the "Big Bang" into dozens of great creative works, leading to texts of "Echoes of the autobiography" in which Mahfouz himself embarked on a reversed search journey about his childhood.