his study provides a linguistic translational analysis that corresponds to the strategies of the kalami politeness in my novel: The Family of Pasquale Duarte of the Spanish book Camillo José Thela and the novel The Thief and the Dog of the Egyptian book Naguib Mahfouz. The study is interested in presenting acts of politeness that include a positive image of the "criminal" in both texts in question. It will also analyze acts of politeness that violate the negative image of the "criminal" himself. The study will therefore benefit from the contribution of brown and Levinson's linguistic politeness principle (1987), which is a fundamental principle in this type of study aimed at analysing both the positive and negative image of the individual. The aim of the study is to highlight the intuitive agreement between both novelists on the general image of the supposed "criminal" as a positive image at the expense of the negative image of the "other". On the other hand, the negative image of "the other" will be highlighted in favor of the positive image of the "criminal". In this paper we will present a contrastive pragma-linguistic analysis between the strategies of verbal politeness in the language of the Spanish novel The family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela and the Egyptian novel The thief and the dogs by Naguib Mahfuz. The analysis focuses on exposing the linguistic acts that reflect the positive image of the supposed "criminal" in both texts. In the same way, the transgression of the negative image of the same will be analyzed. As an opposite extreme, the strategies that break the positive image of the "other" and the strategies that keep the image negative in the two novels are analyzed. So, it is convenient to take advantage of the Politeness Principle of Brown and Levinson (1987), which is essential when analyzing the image, both positive and negative, in a verbal communication. We will emphasize the basic property of this Principle which is "the public image". The objective of the study is to highlight the intuitive agreement of both writers at a pragma-linguistic level, in handling verbal courtesy in favor of the positive image of the supposed "criminal" at the expense of the positive image of the "other". Likewise, the negative image of the "other" is maintained in favor of the negative of the "criminal" in these two texts.