Amis was twenty four when the book appeared to admiring reviews. Finally, the Egyptian universities could not compete during this period, but they will restore their eminence very soon.ġ The son of Kingsley Amis, a writer who began his literary life-with John Osborne and John Wain-as one of the Angry Young Men, Martin Amis outstripped his father's reputation for offending the literary niceties of his day with his first novel, The Rachel Papers (1973). It also stresses that both the political authority and the teaching staff are to blame for that corruption and frailty. This article concludes that readers are shocked and disillusioned because they have regarded that academic life as an example of high thinking, decency and justice.

This study not only portrays the pitfalls of some professors, but highlights the social and political problems that contemporary societies encounter as well. Modern campus novels are also involved in discussing other issues outside the walls of universities. This genre can focus on four groups: students, teaching staff, deans, and faculties. Campus novels are set at (provincial) universities they are written to ridicule both the institution and the naivety or false superiority of some academics. This paper studies Atyaf/Specters as an Egyptian campus novel, and how far the political, social and econonmical conditions have negatively affected such academic life. Radwa Ashour is well-known for her satirical attitudes towards political and social issues, as well as her profession.

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