ABSTRACT
Literary scholarship has long ceased treating literature as a mirror of reality. A literary portrayal of events, individuals and social environments is, at best, partial and subjective. Literature, however, often provides a powerful indication of the way in which a given culture views itself and creates the myths through which reality is perceived by its members. Contemporary Arabic literature is no exception, and it is from this premise that I shall discuss a number of literary works written by Egyptian authors in conjunction with the Suez war.
