Exit Door conveyed an optimistic view of the future, but All That Rubbish is much more sober
Perhaps the most shocking implication of both Houellebecq‘s and Fishere’s novels is that tyranny presupposes the culpability of the people.
Choukri Fishere may simply be, like the protagonist of Bab al-Khoroug, a typical Egyptian citizen who wants stability, hates the Brotherhood and thinks leftists are too idealistic to succeed.
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