The paper deals with three novels that present life narrative in the face of death. The main character in the three novels is a man in his seventies facing different forms of death, while his own approaching death is looming, leading to a kind of reassessment of his whole life. The three novels studied are: Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal (2002), Andre Brink’s Before I Forget (2005), and Adel Esmat’s The Commandments (2018) (in Arabic). It is an intense dramatically loaded moment in life that has been artistically used for its power to provide a distinct point of view on the life narrative of the protagonist. It is a moment of revaluation that possibly changes much of one’s revered and established values. Although one would not classify these narratives as a distinctive and independent sub genre within life writings, yet they do share distinctive traits that makes studying them as a corpus of works productive.
Al Nakkash, L. (2023). Life from the Prism of Death: Life Narratives of the Old in three novels. Cairo Studies in English, 2023(1), 46-61. doi: 10.21608/cse.2023.258127.1147
MLA
Lamis Ragaa Al Nakkash. "Life from the Prism of Death: Life Narratives of the Old in three novels", Cairo Studies in English, 2023, 1, 2023, 46-61. doi: 10.21608/cse.2023.258127.1147
HARVARD
Al Nakkash, L. (2023). 'Life from the Prism of Death: Life Narratives of the Old in three novels', Cairo Studies in English, 2023(1), pp. 46-61. doi: 10.21608/cse.2023.258127.1147
VANCOUVER
Al Nakkash, L. Life from the Prism of Death: Life Narratives of the Old in three novels. Cairo Studies in English, 2023; 2023(1): 46-61. doi: 10.21608/cse.2023.258127.1147
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