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44

Naguib Mahfouz's “The Cairo Trilogy”

Lecture no. 44 from the course: The History of World Literature

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Taught by Professor Dr. Grant L. Voth | 31 min

The Arabs did not really have a novel tradition until the 20th century. In his career, Arab writer Naguib Mahfouz encompassed all of the novelistic traditions, from historical romances to Realist novels to experimental narratives.

48 Lectures

1
Stories and Storytellers Stories and Storytellers 0 of 33 min
2
The “Epic of Gilgamesh” The “Epic of Gilgamesh” 0 of 30 min
3
The Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible 0 of 30 min
4
Homer's “Iliad” Homer's “Iliad” 0 of 30 min
5
Homer's “Odyssey” Homer's “Odyssey” 0 of 29 min
6
Chinese Classical Literature Chinese Classical Literature 0 of 30 min
7
Greek Tragedy Greek Tragedy 0 of 30 min
8
Virgil's “Aeneid” Virgil's “Aeneid” 0 of 30 min
9
Bhagavad Gita Bhagavad Gita 0 of 30 min
10
The New Testament The New Testament 0 of 28 min
11
“Beowulf” “Beowulf” 0 of 31 min
12
Indian Stories Indian Stories 0 of 30 min
13
T'ang Poetry T'ang Poetry 0 of 29 min
14
Early Japanese Poetry Early Japanese Poetry 0 of 30 min
15
“The Tale of Genji” “The Tale of Genji” 0 of 29 min
16
“Inferno,” from Dante's “Divine Comedy” “Inferno,” from Dante's “Divine Comedy” 0 of 29 min
17
Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales” Chaucer's “The Canterbury Tales” 0 of 31 min
18
“1001 Nights” “1001 Nights” 0 of 30 min
19
Wu Ch'eng-en's “Monkey” Wu Ch'eng-en's “Monkey” 0 of 31 min
20
The “Heptameron” The “Heptameron” 0 of 30 min
21
Shakespeare Shakespeare 0 of 32 min
22
Cervantes's “Don Quixote” Cervantes's “Don Quixote” 0 of 31 min
23
Molière's Plays Molière's Plays 0 of 31 min
24
Voltaire's “Candide” Voltaire's “Candide” 0 of 31 min
25
Cao Xueqin's “The Story of the Stone” Cao Xueqin's “The Story of the Stone” 0 of 31 min
26
Goethe's “Faust” Goethe's “Faust” 0 of 32 min
27
Emily Brontë “Wuthering Heights” Emily Brontë “Wuthering Heights” 0 of 32 min
28
Pushkin's “Eugene Onegin” Pushkin's “Eugene Onegin” 0 of 32 min
29
Flaubert's “Madame Bovary” Flaubert's “Madame Bovary” 0 of 32 min
30
Dostoevsky's “Notes from Underground” Dostoevsky's “Notes from Underground” 0 of 32 min
31
Twain's “Huckleberry Finn” Twain's “Huckleberry Finn” 0 of 30 min
32
Dickinson's Poetry Dickinson's Poetry 0 of 32 min
33
Ibsen and Chekhov-Realist Drama Ibsen and Chekhov-Realist Drama 0 of 32 min
34
Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems Rabindranath Tagore's Stories and Poems 0 of 31 min
35
Higuchi Ichiy “Child's Play” Higuchi Ichiy “Child's Play” 0 of 31 min
36
Proust's < Proust's <"Remembrance of Things Past” 0 of 31 min
37
Joyce's “Dubliners” Joyce's “Dubliners” 0 of 31 min
38
Kafka's “The Metamorphosis” Kafka's “The Metamorphosis” 0 of 31 min
39
Pirandello's “Six Characters” Pirandello's “Six Characters” 0 of 31 min
40
Brecht's “The Good Woman of Setzuan” Brecht's “The Good Woman of Setzuan” 0 of 31 min
41
Anna Akhmatova's “Requiem” Anna Akhmatova's “Requiem” 0 of 31 min
42
Kawabata Yasunari's “Snow Country” Kawabata Yasunari's “Snow Country” 0 of 31 min
43
Faulkner-Two Stories and a Novel Faulkner-Two Stories and a Novel 0 of 30 min
44
Naguib Mahfouz's “The Cairo Trilogy” Naguib Mahfouz's “The Cairo Trilogy” 0 of 31 min
45
Achebe's “Things Fall Apart” Achebe's “Things Fall Apart” 0 of 31 min
46
Beckett's Plays Beckett's Plays 0 of 31 min
47
Borges's “Labyrinths” Borges's “Labyrinths” 0 of 30 min
48
Rushdie's “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” Rushdie's “Haroun and the Sea of Stories” 0 of 32 min

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