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Naguib Mahfouz : the pursuit of meaning / Rasheed El-Enany.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Arabic thought and culturePublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203416805
  • 9780203416808
  • 9786610020850
  • 661002085X
  • 9781134905799
  • 1134905793
  • 9781134905836
  • 1134905831
  • 9781134905843
  • 113490584X
  • 113814083X
  • 9781138140837
  • 1280020857
  • 9781280020858
  • 0415246121
  • 9780415246125
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Naguib Mahfouz.DDC classification:
  • 892.735 22
LOC classification:
  • PJ7846.A46 Z597 1993eb
Other classification:
  • 18.74
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Writer and His World. Childhood, family and locality. Education and intellectual influences. Political beliefs and sympathies. The novelist as civil servant. A personal sketch -- 2. Looking Backward to the Present: The Historical Novels. The Game of Fates. Rhodopis. The Struggle of Thebes. Some considerations of form in the early historical novels. History revisited: Before the Throne. He Who Likes in the Truth -- 3. Pains of Rebirth: The Conflict Between Past and Present. Khan al-Khalili. New Cairo. Midaq Alley. Mirage. The Beginning and the End -- 4. Time and the Man: Four Egyptian Sagas. The Cairo Trilogy. There Only Remains an Hour. The Day the Leader was Killed. Qushtumur -- 5. The Aborted Dream: On Earth as in Heaven. The Thief and the Dogs. Autumn Quail. The Search. The Beggar. Chatter on the Nile. Miramar. Love in the Rain and The Karnak. The Heart of the Night. The Age of Love. Wedding Song -- 6. Fragments of Time: The Episodic Novels. Mirrors. Fountain and Tomb.
Tales of Mornings and Evenings. Good Morning to You. Children of Gebelawi. Epic of the Harafish. Nights of the Thousand Nights. The Travels of Ibn Fattuma -- 7. Matters of Form: A Case Study of Respected Sir. The plot. The viewpoint. Themes and presentation. Characterization. Language -- 8. Images of God, Death and Society: The Short Stories and the Plays. The beginning. The second beginning. The flight into absurdity. The plays. The huwariyyat. The recoil from absurdity -- The works of Naguib Mahfouz.
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Summary: 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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1. The Writer and His World. Childhood, family and locality. Education and intellectual influences. Political beliefs and sympathies. The novelist as civil servant. A personal sketch -- 2. Looking Backward to the Present: The Historical Novels. The Game of Fates. Rhodopis. The Struggle of Thebes. Some considerations of form in the early historical novels. History revisited: Before the Throne. He Who Likes in the Truth -- 3. Pains of Rebirth: The Conflict Between Past and Present. Khan al-Khalili. New Cairo. Midaq Alley. Mirage. The Beginning and the End -- 4. Time and the Man: Four Egyptian Sagas. The Cairo Trilogy. There Only Remains an Hour. The Day the Leader was Killed. Qushtumur -- 5. The Aborted Dream: On Earth as in Heaven. The Thief and the Dogs. Autumn Quail. The Search. The Beggar. Chatter on the Nile. Miramar. Love in the Rain and The Karnak. The Heart of the Night. The Age of Love. Wedding Song -- 6. Fragments of Time: The Episodic Novels. Mirrors. Fountain and Tomb.

Tales of Mornings and Evenings. Good Morning to You. Children of Gebelawi. Epic of the Harafish. Nights of the Thousand Nights. The Travels of Ibn Fattuma -- 7. Matters of Form: A Case Study of Respected Sir. The plot. The viewpoint. Themes and presentation. Characterization. Language -- 8. Images of God, Death and Society: The Short Stories and the Plays. The beginning. The second beginning. The flight into absurdity. The plays. The huwariyyat. The recoil from absurdity -- The works of Naguib Mahfouz.

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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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