Naguib Mahfouz

The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography
Herausgeber: Johnson-Davies, Denys

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Produktbeschreibung

Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his intensely brief and evocative Dreams. His Cairo Trilogy achieved the status of a world classic, and the Swedish Academy of Letters in awarding him the 1988 Nobel prize for literature noted that Mahfouz "through works rich in nuance-now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous-has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind." Here Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time," makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present a cross-section through time of the very best of the work of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 778g
• ISBN-13: 9789774163876
• ISBN-10: 9774163877
• Artikelnr.: 29962904

Autorenporträt

Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006) was born in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. Denys Johnson-Davies (1922-2017) produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008) and The Essential Yusuf Idris (AUC Press, 2009). He received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Novels
from Thebes at War, 1944
from Khan al
Khalili, 1946
from Midaq Alley, 1947
from The Beginning and the End, 1949
from The Cairo Trilogy, 1956
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from Palace Walk
from Palace of Desire
from Sugar Street
from Children of the Alley, 1959
from The Thief and the Dogs, 1961
from Adrift on the Nile, 1966
from Miramar, 1967
from Mirrors, 1972
from Karnak Cafe, 1974
from Fountain and Tomb, 1975
from The Harafish, 1977
from Arabian Nights and Days, 1979
from The Journey of Ibn Fattouma, 1983
from Before the Throne, 1983
from Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth, 1985
from The Day the Leader Was Killed, 1985
from Morning and Evening Talk, 1987
Short Stories
The Return of Sinuhe, 1941
Zaabalawi, 1962
The Conjuror Made Off with the Dish, 1969
The Answer is No, 1989
Half a Day, 1989
A Long
tenn Plan, 1989
Forgetfulness, 1984
The Reception Hall, 1996
Traveler with Hand Luggage, 1996
The Rose Garden, 1999
Autobiographical Works
from Echoes of an Autobiography, 1994
from The Dreams, 200
Sources.