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i haven't started it yet but nabbed this one off the shelf. sounds intriguing & i'm eager to dive in
MIRRORS • NAGUIB MAHFOUZ • SEIF WANLI Mirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consists of a series of vignettes of characters from a writer's life-a writer very like Mahfouz himself. And accompanying each vignette is a portrait of the character by a friend of the author, the renowned Alexandrian artist Seif Wanli. Through each vignette, not only is one character described but light is thrown on other characters already familiar or yet to be encountered, as well as on the narrator himself, who we come to know well through the mirrors of his world of acquaintances. Mirrors also reflects the recent history of Egypt, its political movements, its leaders, its wars, and its peace, which affect the lives of its characters and its narrator. The apparently simple but penetrating portraits by Seif Wanli add an extra, distinctive dimension to this already intriguing book. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO PRESS
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM