Echoes of an Autobiography - Rilegato

Mahfouz, Naguib

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ISBN 10: 0385485557 ISBN 13: 9780385485555

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1997

Riassunto

In his first nonfiction book to be published in the United States, the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature offers a collection of pithy reflections on his life, mortality, the puzzles of existence, Islam, and other subjects.

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Recensione:

"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
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L'autore:

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13 short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. 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 awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so. He died in August 2006.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385485557
• ISBN 13: 9780385485555
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 118