SOURCE: “Even in Warm Embraces,” in Times Literary Supplement, July 25, 1997, p. 4.
In the following review of Echoes of an Autobiography, El-Enany compliments the poetic nature of Mahfouz's autobiography and finds it reminiscent of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.
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