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Palace of desire mahfouz6/22/2023 ![]() Mahfouz is better on collisions than on musings. (.) When the novel examines states of consciousness, metaphysics, and the history of ideas, it is sententious. "The second installment situates the rogue-patriarch against the background of deteriorating traditions, filial insubordination, and the rising tide of nationalism and resentment of British domination.(.) There's a sense in which Palace of Desire is a transitional novel." - Richard Dyer, Boston Globe It is richly descriptive of rooms and streets it is full of incident and suggestive in psychology. "The second novel, like the first, is leisurely in its progress it embraces a wide range of tones and stylistic strategies deriving from Mahfouz's systematic study of the major novels of England, Russia and, especially, France. ![]()
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