The Dreams
$27.45
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2010
Summary
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 obscu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307455079 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0307455076 |
| Author: | Naguib Mahfouz, Raymond Stock |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 131mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Cryptic, haunting, and brief… . Frequently the narrator begins in delight and wonder … and ends in terror, doubt, and confusion.” —The New Yorker“Mahfouz [gives us] a sense of immersion in a mind at the edge of life, a mind returning to its elemental instincts… . Mahfouz maintains an unruffled, even humorous voice in the face of these volatile dreamscapes… . A fine, surreal filter through which to divine all the elements at play in contemporary Egyptian society.” —The Seattle Times
About The Author
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006..
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