Whisper of madness, by: Naguib Mahfouz

"The magic of women is manifested in what they breathe out in trivial talk of pleasure." The first story collection by Naguib Mahfouz.. The brilliance of beginnings, the splendor of the first launch of the most important Arab novelist, he excels in depicting the logic of the human psyche sometimes and its madness at other times; where delirium is an amazing phenomenon indicating that a person may betray himself as he betrays others, and most of the stories revolve around the world of lower Cairo, its scandals, and contradictions; the most heinous situations are the funniest. "Often, coldness is beneficial, and if it is not beneficial, it is better than disappointment." And the collection "Whisper of Madness" consists of 28 short stories written by Naguib Mahfouz in 1948, and published at that time in newspapers and magazines. "Indeed, habit has an unbeatable power; it makes the strange, whose eccentricity repels us, into something familiar and perhaps beloved, just as it brings down beauty from its throne and causes it to lose its youth and vigor." It is worth noting that cinema was inspired by "Whisper of Madness" to produce the film "Al-Sharida," directed by Ashraf Fahmy in 1980, starring Naglaa Fathi, Mahmoud Yassin, Nabila Ebeid, and Salah Nazeem. Number of pages: 338