Habiby has been able to see man in unheroic positions. If the core of the tragic world is a moral order corrupted by evil, then the world depicted in this novel is a closed one where two evils have met and where heroism has been born out of the havoc that resulted from their meeting(In her introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)
-Salma Khadra Jayyusi
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