The purpose of this study was to examine the existential predicaments of modern men in Naguib  Mahfouz's selected novels. According to Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist predicament is a dilemma  of human existence in terms of despair, perplexity, crisis or moral chaos and its meanings The  study analysed four of Naguib Mahfouz's novels about Eygptian society faced with existential  predicaments which were The Cairo Trilogy, Midaq Alley, The Thief and the Dogs, and The Beggar  based on Jean-Paul Sartre's model. These novels were selected because they were related to  existential predicament issues that beset the moderm men. The study objectives included (a) to  examine the moral chaos in selected novels, (b) to analyse the modern men's predicaments, and (c) to  explain how existentialist philosophy is able to express the predicaments of the modern men. This  qualitative study has utilised literary criticism as its research design. The underpinning theory  was existent.....

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