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Palace Walk

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Palace Walk (Arabic title بين القصرين) is a novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, and the first installment of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy. Originally published in 1956 with the title Bayn al-qasrayn (lit. Between the Two Palaces), the book was...


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Special Warfare
Palace Walk
12/01/2002: 379 words, approx. 1 pages
By Naguib Mahfouz. New York: Anchor Books, 1991. ISBN 0-385-26466-6 (paperback). 498 pages. $14. Palace Walk (Bayn al-qasrayn in Arabic) is the 1990 English translation of a 1956 work by Naguib Mahfouz. It is the foremost of more than 30 novels written by...
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National Review
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02/19/1990: 762 words, approx. 3 pages
Palace Walk, by Naguib Mahfouz (Doubleday, 498 pp., $22.95) WHEN THE EGYPTIAN writer Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988--the first Arab writer to be so honored--it wasn't owing to his world-wide reputation. In fact, in the United States, Mahfouz...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Rasheed El-Enany
1,522 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, El-Enany discusses the various translation problems in Palace Walk.
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Critical Review by Jake Morrissey
765 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following negative review of Palace Walk, Morrissey unfavorably compares the novel to the work of Charles Dickens, asserting that it “lacks the verve and structure that made Dickens so readable.”


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