THE INTERNATIONAL JTICTION IVEVIEW

Volume 16, Number 2

Summer 1989 THE INTERNATIONAI L A ICTION RAVEVIE, W

A biannual periodical devoted to international fiction; founded by Saad Elkhadem in 1974, and published by the International Fiction Association, Fredericton, N.B., Canada.

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EDITOR: S. Elkhadem Department of German and Russian University of New Brunswick Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3

EDITORIAL Germaine Brée, Wake Forest University AND Fred Cogswell, University of New Brunswick ADVISORY Ruth El Saffar, University of Illinois BOARD: John Fletcher, University of East Anglia Melvin J. Friedman, University of Wisconsin Joseph Mileck, University of California, Berkeley Gerald Moore, University of Trieste Bruce Morrissette, University of Chicago Eustace Palmer, University of Sierra Leone Anthony Pugh, University of New Brunswick Victor Terras, Brown University Mario J. Valdés, University of Toronto Edward Wasiolek, University of Chicago George Woodcock, University of British Columbia Heide Ziegler, University of Stuttgart

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Stanley S. Atherton, Dale Mclntyre, Dexter Noël THE INTERNATIONAL JTICTION IVEVIEW

Volume 16, Number 2 Summer 1989

CONTENTS

ARTICLES AND SHORT ESSAYS

The Allegorical Significance of Naguib Mahfouz's Children of Our Alley Saad El-Gabalawy, University of Calgary 91

Krause's Carlos Fuentes: Toward the Creation of a Myth Alfonso Gonzalez, Calfornia State University, Los Angeles 98

Ring Lardner's "The Love Nest": Illusion, Reality, and the Movie Mogul Kenneth Payne, Kuwait University 103

Voinovich's "Consumer" Satire in 2042 M.D. Fletcher, University of Queensland 106

Jacques Chessex: The Ogre Within David J. Bond, University of Saskatchewan 109

Fiction as Foe: The Novels of J.M. Coetzee Derek Wright, N.T. University, Australia 113

Mohammed Mrabet and the Significance of His Work Ibrahim Dawood, Yarmouk University, Jordan 119

Doris Lessing's Modern Alice in Wonderland: The Good Terrorist as Fantasy Virginia Scott, Southwest Missouri State University 123

From Ethnocentrism to Humanism: Albert Memmi's Le Désert Isaac Yetiv, University of Akron 128 BOOK REVIEWS

Heide Ziegler, ed., Facing Texts: Encounters Between Contemporary Writers and Critics 132 Julio Ortega, ed., Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction 133 T. C. Theoharis, Joyce's Ulysses: An Anatomy of the Soul 134 David G. Roskies, ed.. The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe 135 Camille R. La Bossière, The Victorian "Fol Sage" 137 S. Morrow Paulsen, Flannery O'Connor: A Study of the Short Fiction 139 Sally Fitzgerald, ed., Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 139 E.G. Friedman and M. Fuchs, eds., Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental Fiction 142 K. Fishburn, Doris Lessing: Life, Work, and Criticism 144 Chenjerai Hove, Bones 144 Louise DeSalvo, Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work 146 R. Morgan, Woman and Sexuality in the Novels of Thomas Hardy 147 Ben Stoltzfus, Red White & Blue 148 D. Kelly, Fictional Genders: Role and Representation in Nineteenth- Century French Narrative 150 J. Hynes, The Art of the Real: Muriel Spark's Novels 151 J. Hawthorn, Unlocking the Text: Fundamental Issues in Literary Theory ...153 S.Elkhadem, The Plague / Al-Ta'un 154 D. Grossman, See: Under Love 156 A. Hashmi, ed., The World of Muslim Imagination and Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers 158

Contents listed in

MLA International Bibliography An Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities American Humanities Index Arts and Humanities Index Micromedia Limited

The IFR gratefuylly acknowledges the financial assistance of the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University.

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