"Les Cailles en Automne", an Unpublished Novel by Naguib Mahfouz, the "Arabic Balzac"

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On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the disappearance of the Nobel Prize for Egyptian Literature Naguib Mahfouz, the editions Actes Sud (Sindbad) publish an unpublished novel under the pen of the one who is considered the founder of modern Arab fiction. Through the heers and misfortunes of his protagonist, this novel tells in a realistic vein imprinted with sadness and poetry, the drifts of Egypt of the 1950s and 1960s, caught in the…