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Naguib Mahfouz : his life and times / Rasheed El-Enany.

By: Publication details: Cairo, Egypt : The American Unviersity in Cairo Press, 2007.Description: viii, 194 p.: ill.; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9789774161285 (hbk.):
Other title:
  • Life and times of naguib mahfouz
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PJ7846 .A46  Z597 2007
Contents:
The writer, the time and the place -- Naguib Mahfouz and ancient Egypt -- Naguib Mahfouz and modern Egypt: realistic novels before The Cairo Trilogy -- The Cairo Trilogy and other Egyptian Sagas -- Naguib Mahfouz, Nasser's Egypt and God -- A form of my own: the episodic novels -- Little pieces of clay: the novelist as short story writer and dramatist -- Remembrance of things past and dreams of death and the hereafter.
Summary: In this first biography of Naguib Mahfouz in English, Rasheed El-Enany looks at the life of the man and the work of the writer, and assesses the oeuvre and legacy of a towering figure in the Egyptian and Arab literary world who was able to reach far beyond his own linguistic and cultural boundaries ti an admiring readership across the globe._BOOK JACKET.
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Item type Current library Home library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection PJ 7846 .A46 Z597 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 49994

Includes bibliographical references (p.157-168) and index.

The writer, the time and the place -- Naguib Mahfouz and ancient Egypt -- Naguib Mahfouz and modern Egypt: realistic novels before The Cairo Trilogy -- The Cairo Trilogy and other Egyptian Sagas -- Naguib Mahfouz, Nasser's Egypt and God -- A form of my own: the episodic novels -- Little pieces of clay: the novelist as short story writer and dramatist -- Remembrance of things past and dreams of death and the hereafter.

In this first biography of Naguib Mahfouz in English, Rasheed El-Enany looks at the life of the man and the work of the writer, and assesses the oeuvre and legacy of a towering figure in the Egyptian and Arab literary world who was able to reach far beyond his own linguistic and cultural boundaries ti an admiring readership across the globe._BOOK JACKET.

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