The Beggar (novella)

The Beggar
AuthorNaguib Mahfouz
Original titleالشحاذ
LanguageArabic
GenreNovella
PublisherAnchor Books (eng. trans.)
Publication date
1965
Publication placeEgypt
Media typePrint (Paperback)
ISBN0-385-49835-7 (eng. trans.)
OCLC44132962
892.7/36 21
LC ClassPJ7846.A46 A2 2000

The Beggar is a 1965 novella by Naguib Mahfouz about the failure to find meaning in existence. It is set in post-revolutionary Cairo during the time of Gamal Abdel Nasser.