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1、Unit 1 Half a Day Naguib Mahfouz,About the author education and background important works how he pictures the world Text appreciation structure analysis topic discussion Language understanding sentence paraphrase word study & phrases Assignment,Naguib Mahfouz 纳吉布马福兹,Naguib Mahfouz Education & Backg
2、round,Naguib Mahfouz was born on the 11th Dec. 1911 in an old quarter of Cairo, the youngest son of a merchant. He studied philosophy（哲学）at King Faud I (now Cairo) University, graduating in 1934. He worked in university administration（行政部门） and then in 1939 he worked for the Ministry of Islamic Affa
3、irs. He was later Head of the State Cinema Organization at the Ministry of Culture(文化部）. He also worked as a journalist（记者）.,Although widely translated, his works are not available in most Middle Eastern countries because of his support of Sadats Camp David initiative. In 1994 he survived an assassi
4、nation（暗杀） attempt by Islamic extremists（极端主义分子）. He is married, has two daughters and lives in Cairo.,Naguib Mahfouz Education & Background,Camp David Accords: popular name for the historic peace accords in 1978 between Israel and Egypt.,The official agreement was signed on Mar. 26, 1979, in Washin
5、gton, D.C. by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin(比金)and Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat(沙達特), with U.S. President Jimmy Carter signing as a witness（证人）. Under the pact, which was denounced （公开指责）by other Arab states, Israel agreed to return the Sinai (西奈(半岛) )to Egypt, a transfer（转移；转让） that wa
6、s completed in 1982. In a joint letter the two nations also agreed to negotiate（谈判） Palestinian(巴勒斯坦）autonomy（自主） measures in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip（加沙(西南亚地中海岸港市,巴勒斯坦的一部分,1967年被以色列占领), but in fact no progress was made on this issue before Sadats assassination (暗杀） in Oct., 198
7、1.,Naguib Mahfouz Education & Background,Guess This is ,Naguib Mahfouz important works,Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, in 1988. He has been described as “a Dickens(迪更斯1812-1870, 英国著名现实主义小说家)of the Cairo cafs” and “the Balzac(巴尔扎克1799-1850, 法国小说家) of Egypt“. H
8、e is now the author of no fewer than 30 novels, more than 100 short stories, and more than 200 articles. Half of his novels have been made into films which have circulated （流通；传播）throughout the Arabic-speaking world.,Naguib Mahfouz important works,Mahfouz began writing when he was 17. His first nove
9、l was published in 1939 and ten more were written before the Egyptian Revolution of July 1952, when he stopped writing for several years. One novel was republished in 1953, however, and the appearance of The Cairo Trilogy（三部曲） in 1957 made him famous throughout the Arab world as a depictor（描写者） of t
10、raditional urban（城市的） life.,Naguib Mahfouz important works,The Cairo Trilogy (published 1955-1957) is a tale of the lives of a Muslim family and spans（跨过） the first half of the 20th century. Each book in the trilogy was named after a suburb of Cairo. The first, Palace Walk was set during the British
11、 occupation of Egypt early in the century. The second, Palace of Desire covered the changing times of the 1920s. The third book, Sugar Street brings the family into the mid 20th century. In this final part the head of the family is now old and frail（weak). He surveys the world while the main story c
12、enters on the grandsons.,Naguib Mahfouz important works,Naguib Mahfouz important works,Cairo,Naguib Mahfouz important works,Works of his second writing period: The Children of Gebelawi (1959) The Thief and the Dogs (1961) Autumn Quail (1962) Small Talk on the Nile (1966) Miramar (1967) several colle
13、ctions of short stories.,Naguib Mahfouz how he pictures the world,The picture of the world as it emerges（出现） from the bulk (大量） of Mahfouzs work is very gloomy（暗淡的；阴沉的；令人沮丧的） indeed, though not completely disappointing. It shows that the authors social utopia (乌托邦；理想国）is far from being realized. Mah
14、fouz seems to conceive o f（构思；想象） time as a force of oppression. His novels have consistently shown time as the carrier of change, and change as a very painful process, and very often time is not content until it has dealt his heroes the final blow of death.,Naguib Mahfouz how he pictures the world,
15、To sum up, in Mahfouzs dark description of the world there are only two bright spots（点）. These consist of mans continuing struggle for equality on the one hand and the promise of scientific progress on the other; meanwhile, life is a tragedy.,Text Appreciation,Structure of the text Part 1 (para. 1-
16、) about: Part 2 (para. ) about: Part 3 (para. ) about:,7,The boys misgivings about school,8-16,How the boy felt about school.,17-20,Walking out of the school, he found time had changed everything.,Text Appreciation for group discussion in class,Plot of the story: Setting of the story: Protagonist v.s. Antagonists: Drama of the story lies in: Writing technique: (Have you ever read a story using the similar technique?) Theme of the s
