Dr. offers Muhammad Al-Sayyid Ismail presents in this book his vision of the art of the novel, stopping at the fundamental question raised about the control of this art and its authority over all other creative prose arts.
The critic discusses with critical objectivity whether the novelist is the true historian of many of the nation's events and issues. Through this, he approaches the analysis of the existing relationship between the novel as current events within a text, and political facts that occur in life and lead to revolutions, coups, and various social transformations. The author believes that in the intertwining between the novel by "politics" and the actual reality, a natural simulation; "The novel, by its artistic nature, is the most capable of approaching politics, not as ideas, perceptions, and opinions, but rather through its social embodiments and its reflections in the lived reality after "politics" has become the primary concern of the Arab citizen and is responsible for determining his fate, the nature of his life, and his standard of living."