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Work #831 · Mid

The Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz
1956-57 (Bayn al-Qasrayn, Qasr al-Shawq, al-Sukkariyya) · Arabic
Realist family-saga novel trilogy · Twentieth-century Egyptian / Arabic literature

Mahfouz's 1956-57 trilogy — three generations of a Cairo family across colonial Egypt

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Attribute The Cairo Trilogy (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Scripture
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The Cairo Trilogy

The historical time of three generations.

Space

The Cairo Trilogy

The old alleys and modern streets of Cairo.

Matter

The Cairo Trilogy

The patriarchal house and the embodied family.

Observer

The Cairo Trilogy

The omniscient narrator across the al-Jawad family.

Energy

The Cairo Trilogy

Energies of patriarchy, modernization, revolution.

Information

The Cairo Trilogy

The chronicle of three generations.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Cairo Trilogy

Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy: foundational for modern Arabic literature; first Arabic-language Nobel Prize for Literature (1988).