SOURCE: “Gloomy Clouds & Laughing Sun: Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Laureate,” in Encounter, Vol. 75, No. 2, September, 1990, pp. 43–46.
In the following review, Enright considers the strengths and weaknesses of several recent translations of Mahfouz's novels.
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