SOURCE: “The Cruelty of Memory,” in New York Review of Books, Vol. XLVII, No. 19, November 30, 2000, pp. 42–47.
In the following essay, Said considers the problems of English translations of Mahfouz's work, arguing that they miss the distinctive and direct nature of his narrative voice.
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