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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography (Modern Arabic Literature)

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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz: Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography (Modern Arabic Literature)

A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.

Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the 1988 Nobel prize for literature noted that Mahfouz "through works rich in nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous-has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind."

Here Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," and the first to translate Naguib Mahfouz into English, makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present a cross-section through time of the very best of the work of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781617972072
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	The American University in Cairo Press
Manufacturer	The American University in Cairo Press
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2011-03-01
Publisher	The American University in Cairo Press
ReleaseDate	2011-03-01
Studio	The American University in Cairo Press

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