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Naguib Mahfouz - Dreams of Departure: The Last Dreams Published in the Nobel Laureate´s Lifetime - 9789774160677 - V9789774160677
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Dreams of Departure: The Last Dreams Published in the Nobel Laureate´s Lifetime

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Description for Dreams of Departure: The Last Dreams Published in the Nobel Laureate´s Lifetime Hardback. Presents a second collection of writing based on Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's own dreams serialized in a Cairo magazine before his death in 2006. This title lets us meet more of the real and unreal figures that filled the author's life with glory and worry, ecstasy and ennui, in tales dreamed by a mind too fertile to ever truly rest. Translator(s): Stock, Raymond. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
In this second collection of writing, based on his own dreams serialized in a Cairo magazine before his death in 2006, Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz again displays his matchless ability to tell epic stories in uncannily terse form. As in the first volume (The Dreams, AUC Press, 2004), we meet more of the real (and unreal) figures that filled the author’s life with glory and worry, ecstasy and ennui, in tales dreamed by a mind too fertile to ever truly rest. In them, a man sent by a victorious invader to open a storehouse holding the statue of Egypt’s reawakening finds his access denied by a menacing reptile. An obscure writer dies, and a despairing inscription on his coffin turns his funeral into a massive demonstration. A man opens a stubborn gate to stare at a lake over which loom the illuminated faces of those he has loved, but who are no more—in search of the soul who made him long to live forever. The ever more condensed and poetic episodes in Dreams of Departure movingly carry on Mahfouz’s only major work after a knife attack in 1994 ironically inspired him to dream in print for his readers.

Product Details

Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774160677
SKU
V9789774160677
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Ref
99-15

About Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz was born in 1911 in the crowded Cairo district of Gamaliya. He wrote nearly 40 novel-length works, plus hundreds of short stories and numerous screenplays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988. He died in Cairo in 2006 at the age of 94. RAYMOND STOCK is writing a biography of Naguib Mahfouz. He is the translator of Naguib Mahfouz’s Voices from the Other World (2002), Khufu’s Wisdom (2003), The Dreams (2004), and The Seventh Heaven (2005), all published by the AUC Press.

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