Naguib Mahfouz: the Narrative Project

القدس العربي

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No one disputes the position Naguib Mahfouz occupies in the Arabic novel in particular, and in modern Arabic narrative in general. He elevated the novel from a secondary position in Arabic literature, after poetry which remained dominant until the late 1950s, to a leading position, to the point that the novel became the new Arabic literary canon. Naguib Mahfouz could not have attained this pioneering status […]