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Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition. Michael Beard, Adnan Haydar, eds. Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Press. 1993. xiii + 208 pages. $32.50.
Naguib Mahfouz achieved regional fame in the Arab world long before the worldwide recognition associated with his being awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize (see WLT 63:1, pp. 5-9). The book under review is a successful attempt to explain both his regional and his global acclaim. In it the fascinating fictional universe of this Egyptian novelist is explored as well as the inner workings of the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy. A well documented volume on which the two editors cooperated with ten contributors and two translators, Naguib Mahfouz: From Regional Fame to Global Recognition is a collection of consistently high...