On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Ray Saintonge
wrote:
It's also good to remember that Mahfouz was
not universally admired in
his own country.
Looking at Elfriede Jelinek, Orhan Pamuk and John Maxwell Coetzee, I
think that this is some kind of requirement for writing interesting
texts. I might mix cause and effect.
O'Casey, Steinbeck, Pasternak, Fo....
Looks like I'll be reading the Cairo Trilogy on the long flight to
Wikimania.
Ec