HISTORICAL ALLEGORIES IN NAGUIB MAHFOUZ’S CAIRO TRILOGY
HISTORICAL ALLEGORIES IN NAGUIB MAHFOUZ’S CAIRO TRILOGY

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this work is to analyze the “Cairo Trilogy” of a Nobel Prize winner for literature, the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz with the method of new historicism. In “Cairo Trilogy”, Mahfouz presents the striking events oflate history of Egypt by weaving them with fıction. As history is one of the most useful sources of literature the dense relationship between history and literature is beyond argument. When viewed from this aspect, a new historicist approach to literature will provide a widened perspective to both literature and history by enabling different possibilities for crucial reading. It is expected that the new historicist analysis of “Cairo Trilogy” will enable a better insight into the literature and historical background of Egypt.

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