이집트 사실주의 단편작가 유수프 이드리스와 이집트 여성 -두 단편집『정조사건』과 『고통의 언어』를 중심으로-

Yūsuf Idrīs Egyptian Realistic Short-Story Writer and Egyptian Women -focused on his two Short Story Collections "The Accident of Honour" and "The Language of Pains"-

Yūsuf Idrīs is considered as one of the leading short-story writers who represent the third generation of short-story writers in Egypt. He had been interested in the lower classes of cities and countrysides and wrote realistic trend works based on his own experiences. He could come close to Egyptian readers by choosing his story subjects from common people's daily life problems. Most of the heroes in his works are from common or even abandoned people in Egyptian society. So, he could play an important role to exclude the description of exaggerated feelings and melodramatic trend in Egyptian short stories of the time. Yūsuf Idrīs's concern at women's issues is attributed to his concern at weak and abandoned classes in Egyptian society. It was natural that he became to be interested in Egyptian women who are considered as a second class after men. This paper tries to illuminate Yūsuf Idrīs's life and works which contain his own view on Egyptian women's issues. and to analyze Egyptian women's life as daughters, wives, and mothers through his representative two collections "The Accident of Honor" and "The Language of Pains".