Volume 41, Number 15 · September 22, 1994
Fabulous Fabulist
By J.M. Coetzee
OTHER NOVELS IN ENGLISH BY NAGUIB MAHFOUZ DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
The Harafish
by Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Catherine Cobham
Doubleday, 406 pp., $22.95
Midaq Alley
translated by Trevor Le Gassick
Doubleday/Anchor, 285 pp., $9.00 (paper)
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk
translated by William M. Hutchins, translated by Olive E. Kenny
Doubleday/Anchor, 498 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Palace of Desire
translated by William M. Hutchins, translated by Lorne M. Kenny, translated by Olive E. Kenny
Doubleday/Anchor, 422 pp., $11.00 (paper)
Sugar Street
translated by William M. Hutchins, translated by Angele B. Samaan
Doubleday/Anchor, 308 pp., $11.00 (paper)
The Beginning and the End
translated by Ramses Awad
Doubleday/Anchor, 412 pp., $10.00 (paper)
Children of Gebelawi
translated by Philip Stewart
Three Continents, 368 pp., $16.00 (paper)
The Thief and the Dogs
translated by Trevor Le Gassick, translated by M.M. Badawi
Doubleday/Anchor, 158 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Adrift on the Nile
translated by Frances Liardet
Doubleday/Anchor, 167 pp., $9.95
The Journey of Ibn Fattouma
translated by Denys Johnson-Davies
Doubleday/Anchor, 148 pp., $9.95 (paper)
When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, the slumbers of the Arab Near East were rudely broken. First Egypt and then the whole of the region was forced to turn away from Turkey and toward Europe. A body of secular European ideas—those that had inspired the French Revolution—broke through the barrier separating Islam from the West, setting off a crisis which has not to this day been resolved.
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