Whenever a writer studies his characters’ temperament and natural disposition it will be very easy for him to describe them without being forced to make use of cold and boring mannerism, and
this will also allow him to get inspired by their characters1
for [the description of] a genuinely human event in his narrative, [an event] that may result naturally from their temperament and personality, without having recourse to [too much] fantasy to imagine what it may look like.
[p. iv]2 | On the basis of the preceding it is thus evident that the Egyptian writer definitively must have a comprehensive overview of psychology to acquire a thorough understanding of human nature.
In our opinion, the Egyptian author has not so far taken into account its [sc. psychology’s] principles, neither in writing (styles) nor in the way he forms the personality of his various characters.
It is not our aim in this brief preface to study what is wrong with the Egyptian writer, or his mental diseases – we have attempted to study all this in a book that we are going to publish separately.2
We are presenting here only a few of these deficiencies so that somebody who finds in himself the talent to create [prose] stories, may become acquainted with them3
and [try to] repair/attenuate them, and
