Symbolique et oblicité politique dans deux adaptations égyptiennes du Comte de Monte-Cristo

Abstract

After exploring the diversity of the elements borrowed from the Count of Monte-Cristo by the two adaptations of Henri Barakat – Amir al-intiqam and Amir al-dahaa, this article analyzes the way they work towards their own coherence through a cultural acclimatization on different levels and by the grafting of a subplot with political implications in the line with  the social context of the 1950s and 1960s in Egypt.
Far from accomplishing only his own revenge, the hero is led, in the wake of a political prisoner, to join the sphere of rebellion against the representative of tyranny and to prepare for the rise to power of the just.