The Mahfouz dialogs /

"The Mahfouz Dialogs records the memories, views, and jokes of Naguib Mahfouz on subjects ranging from politics to the relationship between his novels and his life, as delivered to intimate friends at a series of informal meetings stretching over almost half a century." "Mahfouz was a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ghīṭānī, Jamāl
Other Authors: Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006, Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Arabic
Published: Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American University in Cairo Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Ghīṭānī, Jamāl > Diaries.
Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, > 1911-2006 > Anecdotes.
Ghīṭānī, Jamāl
Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, > 1911-2006
Arabic literature > History and criticism.
Gh ̄it ̄an ̄i, Jam ̄al > Diaries.
Mahf ̄uz, Naj ̄ib, 1911-2006 > Anecdotes.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Littérature arabe > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
Arabic literature
Anecdotes
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Diaries
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Dialogs 3
  • Dialog in Celebration of His Ninety-Third Year 36
  • Mahfouzian Memories 61
  • Childhood 66
  • Literary Formation and the Struggle between Literature and Philosophy 81
  • Out of the Shadows, Into the Limelight 94
  • The Major Novels: The Cairo Trilogy 99
  • Great Literature Springs from the Self 105
  • Politics and the Revolution: "I am not opposed to the July Revolution" 110
  • The Cinema: Flourishing in the Years of Literary Despair 132
  • The First, and Greatest, Love 141
  • Marriage and Family 148
  • Well-Loved Places: Cairo and Alexandria 153
  • Old Cairo: Reality and Invention in the World of Mahfouz 181
  • Scattered Gatherings 197.

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