In his journey with the book "The Seduction of Narrative," Dr. Muhammad Al-Sayyid Ismail worked to present a group of applied critical studies in the short story and novel, which begins with the novel "Al-Bayda" by Youssef Idris, and ends with the most recent novelists and short story writers who belong to the new generations, as well as This book is an extensive critical panorama that reviews the development phenomena in novel and short story writing through their most prominent writers and the features emphasized by their creativity in the process of narrative writing.
The book is not satisfied with theoretical presentation, but rather makes experiencing and interrogating literary works among its most important goals, using the latest critical approaches, which clarify the structure of texts without isolating them from their historical context.