Dreams of the Recovery Period - The Complete

• “Dreams of the Recovery Period”... Human flashes that Naguib Mahfouz was preoccupied with, which he formulated and refined on the screen of his mind with the brush of his conscience, then he memorized them to dictate them as he saw fit, so that they would turn into a unique global creative work.


• His dreams are a monument he built for himself that no one else has ever approached, and the grammar of his language is his alone, and his description is one that no one else has described, and the sum of its boundaries is his map with its hills, plains, torrents, cold, summer, rain, and earthquakes.


• It is literary creation in its most glorious phase of modernity, hidden behind the banner of dreams under the pretext that they are unreal, but rather happened in a dream and that the period of their occurrence coincided with the time of recovery.


• The dreams I received during the recovery period mostly revolve around: the mother, the family, the brothers, childhood events, the Gamaliya neighborhood, love and his beloved "B", the Abbasiya house, Sayyidna al-Hussein, Sufism, Saad Zaghloul, al-Nahhas, Alexandria, the sea, politics, Abdel Nasser, the army, the Harrafish, al-Fishawi, football, songs, wisdom and proverbs, Abdel Wahab, Umm Kulthum and Zakaria Ahmed, the July Revolution, the Suez Canal, the Nile, corruption, depression and extremism, Laylat al-Qadr, positions, sectarian strife, "Sanaa al-Bisi"

This book includes “Dreams of the Recovery Period,” published in 2005, and “The Last Dreams,” published in 2015, in addition to testimonies from senior writers about the dreams of Professor Naguib Mahfouz.