Volume 47, Number 19 · November 30, 2000
The Cruelty of Memory
By Edward W. Said
Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Tagreid Abu-Hassabo
Anchor, 168 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Amam al-'Arsh [Before the Throne]
by Naguib Mahfouz
Cairo: Maktabit Misr, 207 pp.
Adrift on the Nile
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Frances Liardet
Anchor, 167 pp., (out of print)
OTHER BOOKS BY NAGUIB MAHFOUZ DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Taht al-Mazella [Under the Shelter]
by Naguib Mahfouz
Cairo: Maktabit Misr, 207 pp.
Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy Part 1
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Olive E. Kenny
Anchor, 498 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy Part 2
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Lorne M. Kenny, by Olive E. Kenny
Anchor, 422 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy Part 3
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins, by Angele Botros Samaan
Anchor, 308 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Children of Gebelaawi
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Philip Stewart
Passeggiata, 497 pp., $17.00 (paper)
The Harafish
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham
Anchor, 406 pp., $14.00 (paper)
Echoes from an Autobiography
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies
Anchor, 128 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Miramar
by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by Fatma Moussa-Mahmoud
Passeggiata, 156 pp., $12.00 (paper)
Before he won the Nobel Prize in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz was known outside the Arab world to students of Arab or Middle Eastern studies largely as the author of picturesque stories about lower-middle-class Cairo life. But even to them he did not seem to have a style or perspective of his own, partly because the few translations available were very uneven in quality and partly because he did not (and still doesn't) have one translator (and hence one voice) who made it a life's project to keep producing Mahfouz's prose masterpieces in English versions.
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