SOURCE: “Fabulous Fabulist,” in New York Review of Books, September 22, 1994, pp. 30–33.
In the following positive review of The Harafish, Coetzee explores Mahfouz's use of Arabic and Western literary techniques, calling him “a great middleman” between the two traditions.
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