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A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz's "Half a Day"
A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz's "Half a Day"
A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz's "Half a Day"
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A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz's "Half a Day"

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A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz's "Half a Day," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
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Release dateJul 6, 2016
ISBN9781535824385
A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz's "Half a Day"

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    A Study Guide for Naguib Mahfouz's "Half a Day" - Gale

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    Half a Day

    Naguib Mahfouz

    1989

    Introduction

    Recognized as a prominent author in his own country of Egypt, Naguib Mahfouz was not widely known in the Western world until receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. After receiving the award, he gained international recognition as one of the more important writers of the twentieth century.

    In 1989 Half a Day was first published in Arabic as part of a short story collection entitled The False Dawn in 1991 HalfaDay was included in an English-language collection entitled The Time and the Place.

    Half a Day belongs to the later phase of Mahfouz’s literary career, which is characterized by a shift from social realism to a more modern, experimental mode of writing. It is a very short (5-page) allegorical tale in which the narrator begins the day as a young boy entering school for the first time, but leaves the schoolyard an old man whose life has passed in what seemed like only "half a

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