By Salma Jayyusi
ISBN-10: 0231132557
ISBN-13: 9780231132558
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This would be a recurrent and popular theme throughout the twentieth century, with a change of emphasis after the 1960s, when the constant migration of thousands of Arabs to the West, by bringing in familiarity, removed part of the curiosity and challenge that earlier twentieth-century Arabs felt toward the West. 39 The Rise of Naguib Mahfouz The novel would finally be established as a genre par excellence with the rise of Naguib Mahfouz (b. 40 The award of the Nobel Prize to Mahfouz in 1988 was not simply a recognition of a single author’s achievement but also an acknowledgement of the fact that the Arabic novel had reached distinction on a global scale.
In the same year he published The New Cairo (al-Qahira ’l-jadida). By now he had embarked on his realistic stage, which would culminate in the Trilogy in the mid-fifties. It was with the appearance of his lovely novel The Thief and the Dogs (al-liss wa ’l-kilab) in 1961, however, that his new modernist phase was achieved. The emphasis in this novel and in those that followed lay on a modern technique in dealing with characterization, sequence of events, and symbolization. His later novels are built on the symbolization of one or another aspect of contemporary life.
He was one of the first modern guardians of Arabic culture and its heritage and was the most zealous of historians, commemorating his vast subject in both fiction and discourse. These charming accounts, on which the generations of readers in the first four decades of the twentieth century were reared, had more history than art 18 Introduction and were inspired more by the Lebanese Christian author’s obsession with his subject. Certainly, the novel form was the only adequate creative medium for such a vast enterprise.
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