“Il romanzo sperimentale egiziano degli anni Novanta: gli esempi di Mustafa Dhikri, Muntasir al-Qaffash, May al-Tilmisani”

The purpose of this article is to offer an overview of the New Generation of Egyptian writers of the Nineties. These new Egyptian voices introduce an experimental novel, which has come to represent an icon in the Egyptian literary field. After a concise analysis of this phenomenon from a socio-literary point of view, I take in exam three novels, which presents clear affinities : Hura’ Mataha Qutiyya (Chats of a Gothic Labyrinth) by Mustafa Zikri, Tasrih bi-l-Ghiyab (Exit-permit) by Muntasir al-Qaffaš, Dunyazad (Duniazad) by May al-Tilmisani. The authors propose an innovative narration, which is no longer focused on History, on ideological issues, and on the collective self of society, focuses entirely on the self. Through a close reading of the original Arabic texts, this study proposes some key readings of this new narrative and poetic form which claims to be at the “margins of History”.