Naguib Mahfouz
Subtitle: his life and times
By: Rasheed El-Enany
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cairo, Egypt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9789774161285
Subjects: Arab Novelists; Biography; Civilization; Egyptiska författare; Biografi
Description: "Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) is the only Arab writer to have been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. The author of thirty-five novels, fifteen collections of short stories, twenty-five film screenplays, numerous critical works, and in his later years over five hundred short fictions based on his dreams (partly published as The Dreams and Dreams of Departure by the AUC Press in 2004 and 2007), he has been hugely influential on several generations of Arab writers, and his books are now read in more than forty languages around the world." "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 to an admiring readership across the globe."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: The writer, the time and the place; title: Naguib Mahfouz and ancient Egypt; title: Naguib Mahfouz and modern Egypt: the realistic novels before The Cairo Trilogy; title: The Cairo Trilogy and other Egyptian sagas; title: Naguib Mahfouz, Nasser's Egypt and God; title: A form my own: the episodic novels; title: The little pieces of clay: the novelist as short story writer and dramatist; title: remembrance of things past and dreams of death and the hereafter.