Cairo trilogy

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The Cairo Trilogy ( Arabic الثلاثية, DMG aṯ-Ṯulāṯīya orثلاثية القاهرة / Ṯulāṯīyat al-Qāhira ) is a novel trilogy by the Egyptian author and Nobel Prize winner Nagib Mahfuz . It was written between 1946–1952, but did not appear until 1956–1957. Mahfuz deals with the life of a Cairo family over several generations (1917–1944).

The three volumes are:

  • Between the palaces (Arabic:بين القصرين / Baina l-Qaṣrain , Arabic first edition 1956; German translation by Doris Kilias 1992)
  • Palace of Longing (قصر الشوق / Qaṣr aš-Šawq , 1957, German 1993)
  • Sugar alley (السكرية / as-Sukkarīya , 1957, German 1994)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wielandt, Rotraud and Andreas Pflitsch: Maḥfūẓ, Naǧīb, Kairo-Trilogie . In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literature Lexicon . tape 10 . Stuttgart and Weimar 2009, p. 504-505 .