In THE BEGGAR, a former revolutionary, now a comfortable member of the bourgeoisie after the 1952 revolution in Cairo, experiences intense alienation when the change in government deprives him of any significant role. THE THIEF AND THE DOGS is the tale of a revolutionary who is released from prison only to destroy himself through his own ...
Readers of Mahfouz's fiction will find many of the same themes that run through his fiction in this autobiography--his preoccupation with old age, death and life's transitory moments--all treated with his characteristic wry good humor. Also of special interest is a number of passages that he devotes to the aphoristic sayings of the traditional ...
A new volume of three novels–previously published separately by Anchor–by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail (published by Anchor in December 2000), these novels represent a comprehensive collection of Mahfouz’s artful meditations on post ...
A collection of short stories by the author of "The Search", "Midaq Alley" and "Wedding Song". All but one of the stories are set in Cairo and they feature the denizens of the alleyways who struggle to survive their poverty, melancholy ruminations on death, and experiments with the supernatural.
Naguib Mahfouz was a widely read, popular novelist in Egypt and throughout the Arabic-speaking world for many years before he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. Since that time, his regional fame has become global recognition, with English-language rights for his works commanding high prices and numerous magazines featuring profiles ...
Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most important Arabic fiction writers of this century. Born in 1911, his long and prolific writing career represents the evolution of a novel genre in Arabic literature. His books are a record of the tragic tensions attendant on a nations's quest for freedom and modernity. In 1988 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. ...
Taking as the basis of her study the premise that the boundaries of history and literature are difficult to define, and that the two disciplines represent two related types of narrative discourse, Samia Mehrez in a series of six essays delves into the work of three leading contemporary Egyptian writers: the Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah ...
An examination of the writings of Naguib Mahfouz from an existential perspective. The author has conducted a series of interviews with Mahfouz over the last ten years. He concludes that western scholars and politicians conceal the realities of daily life in Egypt, which Mahfouz reveals.
Until he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, little was known in the West about the life and literary accomplishment of Naguib Mahfouz, an Egpytian and the first Arab to receive the award. His writing, examined by Matti Moosa in its original Arabic, thereafter became widely available and widely scrutinized. Moosa introduces Mahfouz and his ...
This is a collection of autobiographical reflections from the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature. The author considers the perplexities of existence, including his preoccupations with old age, death and life's transitory nature. A number of passages are devoted to the aphoristic sayings of Sufi literature, a unique contribution of Islam ...
Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world's celebrated Nobel laureate for literature, died in Cairo on 30 August 2006. He was 94 years old and had been in frail health since an assassination attempt in 1994, which left him almost unable to write. Prior to the award of the Nobel Prize in 1988, nine Mahfouz novels had been published in English and, as the ...
For Mahfouz, Cairo has always been a place of special resonance, a city he loves and has revisited in his writings. Britta Le Va guides us through his pages and treads his streets to produce a collection of visual images of the city. In his introduction, novelist Gamal al-Ghitani describes his walking tour with the great man around the streets of ...
Najib Mahfuz is Egypt's best known novelist. In 1988 he became the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize, and he is now internationally famous. This book which provides a detailed analysis of Mahfuz's major works ( "The Cairo Trilogy," "The Thief and the Dogs," "Children of Gebelawi" ) is intended for both the specialist and the general reader.
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