Naguib Mahfouz at the Complete Review

Naguib Mahfouz at the Complete Review

"Naguib Mahfouz, the leading Egyptian and Arab novelist today, has produced the most professional novels of all about Cairo, its people and life. He portrays the changes that have occurred in the lives of the petit bourgeois Cairenes, highlighting the difference between one generation and another as these are influenced by new forces, ideas and events. With the publication of his famous trilogy in 1956-57 he established the Egyptian novel as a highly artistic literary form." - P.J.Vatikiotis, Times Literary Supplement (30/4/1976)