Elisabetta Benigni
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
La libertà e le rivoluzioni nel caffè “Karnak” di Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ: un modello di letteratura di resistenza al potere.
Articolo della rivista, Anno II, numero 3, giugno 2012
Written in 1971 and published in 1974, al-Karnak is one of Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ’s most explicitly political novels. The story is set in the social and collegial space of a Cairene coffee shop, illustrating the collective tragedy of mass arrests that took place during the 1960s. Published a few years after [...]