What is it about?
Review of Nathaniel Greenberg, The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967)
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Why is it important?
One of the few books to deal with Mahfouz's writing for film, arguing that it was not just boilerplate but a real deployment of the author's talents into a new medium.
Perspectives
Greenberg's book adds a new angle to thinking about the great Egyptian novelist.
Ken Seigneurie
Simon Fraser University
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This page is a summary of: Nathaniel Greenberg, The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952–1967) (Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2014). Pp. 120. $75.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780739183694., International Journal of Middle East Studies, July 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0020743815000665.
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