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Khan al-Khalili, by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, portrays the clash of old and new in an historic Cairo neighborhood as German bombs fall on the city The time is 1942, World War II is at its height, and the Africa Campaign is raging along the northern coast of Egypt...

A stunning example of Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz's psychological portraiture, The Mirage is the story of an intense young man who has been so dominated by his mother that her death sets him dangerously adrift in a world he cannot manage alone. Kamil Ru'ba is a tortured soul who hopes that writing the story of his life will help him gain control of it. Raised by a mother who fled her abusive husband and became overbearingly possessive and protective toward her young son, he has long been isolated emotionally and physically. Now in his twenties, Kamil seeks to escape her posthumous grasp. Finding and successfully courting the woman of his dreams seems to promise salvation, until his ignorance of mature love and his fear and jealousy lead to tragedy.

Abbas Karam Younis, giovane idealista, scrive il suo primo dramma dando spazio ai segreti piu intimi e sordidi della sua famiglia e degli amici che gravitano intorno: gioco d'azzardo, prostituzione, alcol, droghe, omicidi. La coincidenza con la realta e cosi forte da aprire un oscuro corridoio fra la rappresentazione e la vita. Sullo sfondo del Cairo e dei suoi teatri, quattro personaggi raccontano gli amori e le gelosie, la passione e la morte, trasformando il copione che si preparano a interpretare nel canovaccio dell'esistenza.

Gracias a esta selección excepcional de frases sabias, extraídas de las obras más importantes del único premio Nóbel de las letras árabes, el lector tiene acceso a una amplia y profunda perspectiva de las ideas clarividentes, profundas pero asequibles, de este gran autor. Este libro es un claro reflejo del gran amor que sentia Mahfuz por Egipto y los barrios populares de El Cairo donde crecio. En el estan presentes todos los temas que le preocuparon especialmente: historia y politica, la muerte, la fe, la etica y la espiritualidad.

Mahfuz no se plantea la reconstrucción de la rebelión y guerra de los egipcios contra los hicsos con un espíritu arqueológico, sino situando en un primer plano a sus protagonistas, mostrando sus sentimientos y el ambiente espiritual de una epoca, y probablemente sea este enfoque el que ha convertido a esta obra en una de las novelas historicas mas logradas e intensas del siglo XX.

This unusual epic from the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz 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.

Quan el missatger d’Apopis, rei dels hicsos, arriba a Tebes carregat d’arrogància, Seqenenre, governador dels egipcis, augura notícies nefastes. Els hicsos sempre han tractat de sotmetre els egipcis

Los esfuerzos de Mahyub Abdudaim –joven de humilde extracción, resentido por su pobreza, burlón, egoísta y carente de valores y principios– por alcanzar un estatus social europeizante en el que corre

MiriMon, acompañado de su padre, parte de Sais con destino a Panopolis. Durante el camino pasan junto a Akhetatón, la ciudad maldita. Decidido a conocer la verdad sobre lo que allí ocurrió, empieza a recopilar testimonios sobre el rey Hereje.Naguib Mahfuz nacio en 1911 en El Cairo, donde realizo estudios de Filosofia. Ademas de uno de los periodista mas reputados y un punto de referencia en la vida intelectual y politica de su pais, es autor de una amplia produccion literaria en la que, junto a originales obras dramaticas, destacan Principio y fin, Cuentos ciertos e inciertos y las novelas historicas situadas en Egipto Akhenaton, el rey hereje, Rhadopis, La batalla de Tebas y La maldicion de Ra, todas ellas publicadas en Edhasa y merecedoras de diversos premios. En el año de su centenario se contabilizaron mas de quinientas ediciones de sus obras en una cuarentena larga de lenguas. El profundo humanismo que emana de su obra y su eficacia como narrador inigualable del alma y la cultura popular egipcia le valieron en 1988 el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Desde 1996 da nombre a uno de los mas importantes premios literarios en lengua arabe.

First published in 1961, this novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author tells the story of a man who blames an unjust society for his ill fortune. He reverts to old, thieving habits, and eventually brings himself to destruction in a cruel world. Three By Mahfouz represents a comprehensive collection of Mahfouz''s work on twentieth-century life. These novels, previously published separately by Anchor, are meditations on the vicissitudes of post-Revolution Egypt. While they are diverse in style and narrative technique, together they render a vision of modern culture that is rich, nuanced, and utterly unique -- both specific to the Middle East and with implications for the universal dilemmas of contemporary life. "The Beggar" is a complex tale of alienation and despair. Unable to achieve psychological renewal in the aftermath of Nasser''s revolution, a man sacrifices his work and family to a series of illicit love affairs that intensify his feelings of estrangement. A passionate outcry against irrelevance, and a masterful work of fiction. Released from jail in post-revolutionary times, the hero of "The Thief And The Dogs" blames an unjust society for his ill fortune, reverting to old, thieving habits, and eventually bringing himself to destruction in a cruel world that denies him redemption even when his cold heart is eventually softened by love. "Autumn Quail" is a tale of moral responsibility, alienation, and political downfall featuring a corrupt young bureaucrat, Isa ad-Dabbagh, who is one of the early victims of the purge after the 1952 Revolution in Egypt. Mahfouz presents a remarkable portrait of the clash between past and present, a portrait that is ultimately an optimistic one in which the two will peacefully coexist. Naguib Mahfouz has contributed to The Thief and the Dogs as an author. NAGUIB MAHFOUZ was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He studied philosophy at Cairo University, then worked in various government ministries until his retirement in 1971. His first three published novels were Khufu''s Wisdom (1939), Rhadopis of Nubia (1943), and Thebes at War (1944), all of which are set in ancient Egypt. These political and philosophical critiques disguised as historical romances show the unmistakable signs of

Par l’évocation de personnes qu’il a connues, aimées ou simplement croisées au cours de sa longue existence, Naguib Mahfouz donne à voir avec Miroirs le kaléidoscope chamarré de l’Egypte du XXe siècl

Othmân Bayyoumi est un fonctionnaire assidu et pieux, un serviteur zélé de l’Etat – cet Etat égyptien aussi vieux que le monde, qu’il considère comme “le souffle de Dieu sur terre”. Toute sa carrière

Un homme se souvient du quartier de son enfance et des itinéraires parfois douloureux d’une douzaine de familles cairotes, représentatives d’une Egypte qui n’a pas toujours su concilier authenticité