Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning

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A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Included is a full biography and systematic analysis of the writer's works.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415073950
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 6/25/1993
  • Series: Arabic Thought and Culture Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
1 The Writer and His World 1
Childhood, family and locality 1
Education and intellectual influences 11
Political beliefs and sympathies 22
The novelist as civil servant 29
A personal sketch 31
2 Looking Backward to the Present: The Historical Novels 35
The Game of Fates 36
Rhodopis 37
The Struggle of Thebes 38
Some considerations of form in the early historical novels 40
History revisited: Before the Throne 42
He Who Likes in the Truth 45
3 Pains of Rebirth: The Conflict Between Past and Present 47
Khan al-Khalili 47
New Cairo 51
Midaq Alley 54
Mirage 61
The Beginning and the End 66
4 Time and the Man: Four Egyptian Sagas 70
The Cairo Trilogy 71
There Only Remains an Hour 90
The Day the Leader was Killed 92
Qushtumur 95
5 The Aborted Dream: On Earth as in Heaven 99
The Thief and the Dogs 102
Autumn Quail 104
The Search 106
The Beggar 107
Chatter on the Nile 110
Miramar 113
Love in the Rain and The Karnak 115
The Heart of the Night 119
The Age of Love 124
Wedding Song 125
6 Fragments of Time: The Episodic Novels 128
Mirrors 131
Fountain and Tomb 133
Tales of Mornings and Evenings 136
Good Morning to You 137
Children of Gebelawi 141
Epic of the Harafish 144
Nights of the Thousand Nights 159
The Travels of Ibn Fattuma 168
7 Matters of Form: A Case Study of Respected Sir 175
The plot 175
The viewpoint 179
Themes and presentation 182
Characterization 188
Language 192
8 Images of God, Death and Society: The Short Stories and the Plays 195
The beginning 196
The second beginning 196
The flight into absurdity 200
The plays 204
The huwariyyat 208
The recoil from absurdity 209
Notes 213
The works of Naguib Mahfouz 251
A guide for further reading 258
Index 263
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