Pharaoh
$44.17
- Paperback
520 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
A groundbreaking new translation of the only historical novel by noted Polish writer Bolesaw Prus.
” … unique in world literature of the nineteenth century”–Czesaw Miosz
Imbued with poetry, leavened with humor, and graced with moments of transcendent beauty, Pharaoh offers a compelling picture of life at every level of ancient Egyptian society. As the story unfolds, Egypt is experiencing internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780781814508 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0781814502 |
| Author: | Christopher Kasparek, Bolesaw Prus |
| Publisher: | Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 520 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 746g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 229mm x 154mm |
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About The Author
Christopher Kasparek
Bolesław Prus (1847-1912) took the pen surname Prus from his family’s coat of arms. At age 15 he joined the 1863 Polish Uprising against Imperial Russia, where he suffered severe battle injuries. He completed secondary school and studied mathematics and physics at Warsaw University. At age 25 in 1872, Prus embarked on a forty-year career as a newspaper columnist. After achieving great acclaim with his short stories, between 1886 and 1893 he wrote three novels: The Outpost, The Doll, and The New Woman. In 1894-95, he completed his only historical novel, Pharaoh.
Christopher Kasparek, son of World War II Polish Armed Forces veterans, was born in Scotland. He produced an initial draft translation of Pharaoh while in secondary school. After pre-medical studies at Monterey Peninsula College, from 1965-66 he studied Polish literature at the University of California, Berkeley with Czesław Miłosz, including participation in Miłosz’s seminars translating Polish poetry. In 1972-78 Kasparek studied medicine at Warsaw Medical School, in Poland. During that time, he translated papers and two books, A History of Six Ideas and On Perfection, by Władysław Tatarkiewicz. After receiving his medical degree, Kasparek translated Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two by Władysław Kozaczuk. Kasparek subsequently practiced psychiatry for 33 years in California, where he resides. He has also published translations of sections of several other books; as well as articles and translations on a wide range of subjects in publications including The Monterey Herald, The Daily Californian, Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa, Dialectics and Humanism: The Polish Philosophical Quarterly, Cryptologia, The Polish Review, Psychiatric News, The Psychiatric Times, Clinical Psychiatry News, and many articles and translations in the online Wikipedia and Wikisource. He resides in Carmel, California.
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