I saw what the sleeper sees

This collection of short stories puts the reader in confrontation with many of the existential questions and contradictions that make up life, as Naguib Mahfouz mobilizes his deep vision of life into five medium-length stories, followed by 17 dreams that Mahfouz collected under the title "I Saw What the Sleeper Sees," through which he tells the human journey. From his birth until his death. While the collection begins with the story "The People of Fancy," in which Mahfouz presented a picture of a virgin human being who emerges to life from inside the cellar, and this story was turned into a movie called "The Balah Agency." As for the story "My Divide and My Portion," it deals with the hidden aspects of human life, the eternal struggle between good and evil, and the fate of a person stuck between comfort and pain.