Echoes of an Autobiography
$38.72
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 April 1998
Summary
From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer- “These pieces are meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer Mahfouz. They are–in the words of the title of one of the prose pieces–‘The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon’ of his life. I don’t believe any autobiography, with its inevitable implication of self-presentation, could have matched what we have here.“With more than 500,000 copies of his books in print, Naguib Mahfouz has established a following of readers for whom Echoes of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385485562 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385485565 |
| Author: | Naguib Mahfouz |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 1998 |
| Weight: | 127g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 134mm x 8mm |
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Critics Review
“A haunting commonplace book of tranquil wisdom.”–Kirkus Reviews
“This mosaic of autobiographical vignettes, reflections, allegories, childhood memories, dream visions, and Sufi-like spiritual maxims and paradoxes is a deep pool of wisdom that confirms his stature as a writer of universal appeal.”–Publishers Weekly
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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