![]() ![]() The last two decades have also seen a steady increase in the realization of the originality and human significance of Mahfouz's work in the West-a realization which culminated in the award of the Nobel Prize for literature to the author in 1988. Thus the last twenty-odd years of his creative life (specifically since the late 1960s) which saw his imagination take new turnings and some of his most important works written have remained largely unresearched and the link unestablished between the two halves of his oeuvre. ![]() All existing studies, whether in Arabic or English, were written at a time when the novelist was still at the height of his energy and inventiveness. A new book on Naguib Mahfouz has long been overdue. ![]()
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