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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Anonim
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617972072

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A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate. 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," and the first to translate Naguib Mahfouz into English, 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.

Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Denys Johnson-Davies
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Author : Denys Johnson-Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1306504112

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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 nuancenow clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguoushas formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.Here Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as the leading ArabicEnglish 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 Egypts Nobel literature laureate.

The Essential Naguib Mahfouz

Najīb Maḥfūẓ
The Essential Naguib Mahfouz Book PDF

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789774163876

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The Essential Naguib Mahfouz by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

A selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate. 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," and the first to translate Naguib Mahfouz into English, 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.

The Dreams

Naguib Mahfouz
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307806772

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The Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

In his final years, Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz distilled his storyteller's art to its most essential level. Written with the compression and power of dreams, these poetic vignettes, originally collected in two books, The Dreams and Dreams of Departure, here combined in one volume for the first time. These stories telescope epic tales into tersely haunting miniatures. A man finds his neighborhood has turned into a circus, but his joy turns to anger when he cannot escape it. An obscure writer finally achieves fame-through the epitaph on his grave. A group of friends telling jokes in an alley face the murderous revenge of an ancient Egyptian queen. Figures from Mahfouz's past-women he loved, men who inspired him, even fictional characters from his own novels-float through tales dreamed by a mind too fertile ever to rest, even in sleep. Translated by Raymond Stock

The Beginning and the End

Naguib Mahfouz
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525431640

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The Beginning and the End by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

First published in 1956, this is a powerful portrayal of a middle-class Egyptian family confronted by material, moral, and spiritual problems during World War II.

The Quarter

Naguib Mahfouz
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Saqi Books
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780863563850

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The Quarter by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This collection by pre-eminent Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz was recently discovered among his old papers. Found with a slip of paper titled 'for publishing 1994', they are published here for the first time. Resplendent with Mahfouz's delicate and poignant observations of everyday happenings, these lively stories take the reader deep into the beating heart of Cairo.

The Essential Yusuf Idris

Yūsuf Idrīs
The Essential Yusuf Idris Book PDF

Author : Yūsuf Idrīs
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774162420

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The Essential Yusuf Idris by Yūsuf Idrīs Pdf

Yusuf Idris (1927-91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and the support of the nationalist struggle, and in writing--and his writing, whether in his regular newspaper columns or in his fiction, often reflected his political convictions. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature more than once, and when the prize went to Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, Idris felt that he had been passed over because of his outspoken views on Israel. In all, Yusuf Idris wrote some twelve collections of superbly crafted short stories, mainly about ordinary, poor people, many of which have been translated into English and are included, along with an extract from one of his novels, in this collection of the best of his work.

The Time and the Place

Naguib Mahfouz
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525431633

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The Time and the Place by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Selected and translated by the distinguished scholar Denys Johnson-Daivies, these stories have all the celebrated and distinctive characters and qualities found in Mahfouz's novels: The denizens of the dark, narrow alleyways of Cairo, who struggle to survive the poverty; melancholy ruminations on death; experiments with the supernatural; and witty excursions into Cairene middle-class life.

Naguib Mahfouz

Rasheed El-Enany
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Author : Rasheed El-Enany
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9774161289

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Naguib Mahfouz by Rasheed El-Enany Pdf

Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) is the only Arab writer to have been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. In its citation for the Nobel prize, the Swedish Academy of Letters noted “through works rich in nuance—now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous— has formed an Arabic narrative art that applies to all mankind.†The author of thirty-five novels, fifteen collections of short stories, twenty-five film screenplays, numerous critical works, and in his later years over five hundred short fictions based on his dreams (partly published as The Dreams and Dreams of Departure by the AUC Press in 2004 and 2007), he has been hugely influential on several generations of Arab writers, and his books are now read in more than forty languages around the world. In this first biography of Naguib Mahfouz in English, Rasheed El-Enany looks at the life of the man and the work of the writer, and assesses the oeuvre and legacy of a towering figure in the Egyptian and Arab literary world who was able to reach far beyond his own linguistic and cultural boundaries to an admiring readership across the globe.

Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber : reflections of a Nobel laureate : 1994-2001 : from conversations with Mohamed Salmawy

Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber reflections of a Nobel laureate 1994 2001 from conversations with Mohamed Salmawy Book PDF

Author : Najīb Maḥfūẓ
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 977424673X

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Naguib Mahfouz at Sidi Gaber : reflections of a Nobel laureate : 1994-2001 : from conversations with Mohamed Salmawy by Najīb Maḥfūẓ Pdf

"This volume, published on the occasion of the Nobel laureate's 90th birthday, brings together a selection of the more personal, reflective pieces that have appeared over the past seven years. They reveal a writer concerned as always with the human condition, with his own thought processes, and with the craft of writing, offering rare insights into the way a great writer thinks and works. The range and quality of writing is even more remarkable when one remembers that since a nearly fatal knife attack in 1994, the injuries Mahfouz sustained, combined with his failing eyesight, have made it almost impossible for him to write. But as a man who has devoted his life to the written word, Mahfouz now prepares his weekly articles through conversations with his friend Mohamed Salmawy, who has selected and gathered the pieces in this collection.

Mirrors

Naguib Mahfouz,محفوظ، نجيب
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz,محفوظ، نجيب
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9774245601

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Mirrors by Naguib Mahfouz,محفوظ، نجيب Pdf

Mirrors is one of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's more unusual works. First published in serialized form in the Egyptian television magazine, it consists of a series of vignettes of characters from a writer's life--a writer very like Mahfouz himself. And accompanying each vignette is a portrait of the character by a friend of the author, the renowned Alexandrian artist Seif Wanli. Through each vignette--whether of a lifelong friend, a sometime adversary, or a childhood sweetheart--not only is that one character described but much light is thrown on other characters already familiar or yet to be encountered, as well as on the narrator himself, who we come to know well through the mirrors of his world of acquaintances. At the same time, Mirrors also reflects the recent history of Egypt, its political movements, its leaders, its wars, and its peace, all of which affect the lives of friends and enemies and of the narrator himself. As the translator writes in his Introduction, "the narrator's acquaintances from childhood, schooldays, and civil service career take him from the lofty heights of intellectual salons to the seemy squalor of brothels and drug dens; from the dreams of youth and nationalistic ideals to the sobering realities of post-revolutionary society and clashing economic and political values."The apparently simple but penetrating portraits by Seif Wanli add an extra, distinctive dimension to this already intriguing book. They originally appeared with the serialized texts in the television magazine, but were omitted when the book was first published in 1972, and were also omitted when the English translation first appeared in 1977. Now, in this special edition, the pictures and the complete text appear together for the first time.

The Harafish

Naguib Mahfouz
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385423359

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The Harafish by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is perhaps the best-known living Arab writer. His books have had great success in this country, particularly The Cairo Trilogy. Fans of the famed trilogy will be delighted with The Harafish, an epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family -- a family that moves, over many generations, from the height of power and glory to the depths of decadence and decay. The Harafish begins with the tale of Ashur al-Nagi, a man who grows from humble beginnings to become a great leader, a legend among his people. Generation after generation, however, Ashur's descendants grow further from his legendary example. They lose touch with their origins as they amass and then squander large fortunes, marry prostitutes when they marry at all, and develop rivalries that end in death. The community's upper class keeps a watchful eye on the descendants of al-Nagi for fear of losing their privileges, but they find no threat of another such as Ashur. Not, that is, until the al-Nagi who, like his noble ancestor, finds his power once again from among The Harafish, or the common people. Through the strength of their numbers and their passion, the glory of the name of al-Nagi is restored. "Of all [Mahfouz's] experiments in recent decades, this is the one which owes least to western inspiration and is probably the most successful. The Harafish, fluently translated by Catherine Cobham, makes accessible and engrossing reading." -- The Washington Post Book World.

The Story of the Banned Book

Mohamed Shoair
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Author : Mohamed Shoair
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649032249

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The Story of the Banned Book by Mohamed Shoair Pdf

An award-winning account of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s most controversial novel and the fierce debates that it provoked Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Children of the Alley has been in the spotlight since it was first published in Egypt in 1959. It has been at times banned and at others allowed, sold sometimes under the counter and sometimes openly on the street, often pirated and only recently legally reprinted. It has inspired anxiety among the secular authorities, rage within the religious right, and a drawing of battle lines among Arab intellectuals and writers. It dogged Mahfouz like a curse throughout the remainder of his career, led to his attempted assassination, and sparked a public debate that continues to this day, even after the author’s death in 2006. It is Egypt’s iconic novel, in whose mirror millions have seen themselves, their society, and even the universe, some finding truth, others blasphemy. In this award-winning account, Mohamed Shoair traces the story of Mahfouz’s novel as a cultural and political object, from its first publication to the present via Mahfouz’s award of the Nobel prize for literature in 1988 and the attempt on his life in 1994. He presents the arguments that swirled about the novel and the wide cast of Egyptian figures, from state actors to secular intellectuals and Islamists, who took part in them. He also contextualizes the interactions among the principal characters, interactions that have done much to shape the country’s present. Extensively researched and written in a lucid, accessible style, The Story of the Banned Book is both a gripping work of investigative journalism and a window onto some of the fiercest debates around culture and religion to have taken place in Egyptian society over the past half-century.

Heart of the Night

Naguib Mahfouz
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Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617973062

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Heart of the Night by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

Nobel winning author, Naguib Mahfouz's late-translated novella, Heart of the Night is now available for the first time in paperback Jaafar Ibrahim Sayyed al-Rawi is guided by his motto, “let life be filled with holy madness to the last breath.” He narrates his life story to a friend during one long night in a café in old Cairo. Through a series of bad decisions, he has lost everything: his family, his position in society, and his fortune. A man driven by his passions, he married a beautiful Bedouin nomad for love, and as a consequence pays a punishingly high price. From a life of comfort with a promising future guaranteed by his wealthy grandfather, he descended to the spartan life of a pauper, after being disinherited. Jaafar faces his tribulations with surprising stoicism and hope, sustained by his strong convictions, his spirituality, his sense of mission, and his deep desire to bring social justice to his people. Heart of the Night is a classic Mahfouz gem exploring marriage across class lines, spirituality, and the harsh realities of a precarious, life written by one of Egypt's most celebrated literary masters.

Morning and Evening Talk

Naguib Mahfouz
Morning and Evening Talk Book PDF

Author : Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307793874

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Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz Pdf

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Cairo Trilogy and "a storyteller of the first order” (Vanity Fair) comes an epic novel that portrays five generations of one sprawling family against the upheavals of two centuries of modern Egyptian history. Set in Cairo, Morning and Evening Talk traces three related families from the arrival of Napoleon to the 1980s, through short character sketches arranged in alphabetical order. This highly experimental device produces a kind of biographical dictionary, whose individual entries come together to paint a vivid portrait of life in Cairo from a range of perspectives. The characters include representatives of every class and human type and as the intricate family saga unfolds, a powerful picture of a society in transition emerges. This is a tale of change and continuity, of the death of a traditional way of life and the road to independence and beyond, seen through the eyes of Egypt's citizens. Naguib Mahfouz's last chronicle of Cairo is both an elegy to a bygone era and a tribute to the Egyptian spirit.