Ethics and Narrative: A Cognitive-Criticism Perspective

About the book

By Mohamed Salim ShoushaDiscusses The Sergeant’s Misfortune

A critical book by Mohamed Salim Shousha, published by Dar al-Ain in 2026. It is not devoted to Kamal Ruhayyim alone: it reads three Arabic novels by different writers, The Sergeant’s Misfortune by Kamal Ruhayyim, Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz and The Last Turn by Ahmed al-Zamam, from the perspective of cognitive criticism, tracing how ethics, memory and emotion interact with narrative structure.

According to Fatma Abu Naji’s review in Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (31 July 2026), its reading of The Sergeant’s Misfortune attends to the child narrator’s memory, the image of the mother, and how experience and emotion shape character.

Editions

• الأخلاق والسرد: من منظور النقد الإدراكيدار العين للنشر · 2026