KEPELOPORAN MAHMŪD TAYMŪR DALAM CERPEN ARAB MODERN
Abstract
Mahmud Taymur was one of the founders of the Egyptianrealistic short story, also known as Syaikh al-Qisasah alQashīrah. Remaining productive over a long life Taymurwrote extensive literary criticism and was the author ofshort stories, novellas, and plays totaling a score ofvolumes. Most notable for his skill in characterization, heachieved a literary eminence shared by few other Arabs ofhis generation in Cairo in 1947, and individual stories byhim gave and appeared widely in English and EuropeanAnthologies. Taymur’s early works were influenced byChekhov and Maupassant. His short stories of the 1920sand 1930s portrayed various social strata in Egypt.Taymur’s prose is marked by humanism and psychologicalsubtlety. In the late 1930s and in the 1940s his prose wasinfluenced by symbolism but after the revolutionary coupof 1952, Taymur’s works were predominantly realistic.
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