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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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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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; THE WRITER AND HIS WORLD; LOOKING BACKWARD TO THE PRESENT: THE HISTORICAL NOVELS; PAINS OF REBIRTH: THE CONFLICT BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT; TIME AND THE MAN: FOUR EGYPTIAN SAGAS; THE ABORTED DREAM: ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN; FRAGMENTS OF TIME: THE EPISODIC NOVELS; MATTERS OF FORM: A CASE STUDY OF RESPECTED SIR; IMAGES OF GOD, DEATH AND SOCIETY: THE SHORT STORIES AND THE PLAYS; Notes; The works of Naguib Mahfouz; A guide for further reading; Index