Essays on Literature and Philosophy: The Non-Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz: Volume I, Volume 1
Nov 2015 · Gingko Library
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The nonfiction writing of Naguib Mahfouz, presented in English for the first time.
The first Arabic language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, helped bring Arabic writing to an international readership. This collection of his early writing, from his time as a philosophy student, reveals the intellectual ferment of the young author, grappling with two millennia of philosophers and writers and establishing his own voice among them.
Available in English for the first time, these essays tackle a vast array of subjects, from Presocratic Philosophy to love and the sexual impulse. The intellectual development demonstrated here forms the foundation of Mahfouz’s literary work, granting insight into the mind behind such famed works as the Cairo Trilogy and Children of The Alley.
The first Arabic language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, helped bring Arabic writing to an international readership. This collection of his early writing, from his time as a philosophy student, reveals the intellectual ferment of the young author, grappling with two millennia of philosophers and writers and establishing his own voice among them.
Available in English for the first time, these essays tackle a vast array of subjects, from Presocratic Philosophy to love and the sexual impulse. The intellectual development demonstrated here forms the foundation of Mahfouz’s literary work, granting insight into the mind behind such famed works as the Cairo Trilogy and Children of The Alley.
About the author
Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) is often named as the greatest Arab writer of the twentieth century. Born in the old Islamic Quarter of Cairo in 1911, he began writing aged seventeen before entering university to study philosophy in 1930. He is the author of over thirty novels. In 1988, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rasheed El-Enany is the dean of the school of social sciences and humanities and professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. He is also professor emeritus of modern Arabic literature at the University of Exeter, where he became director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. He has authored several books on Mahfouz, including Naguib Mahfouz: His Life and Times. Aran Byrne studied Arabic and Persian at SOAS, University of London, and completed a master’s degree in Oriental studies at the University of Oxford. In addition to On Literature and Philosophy, he was co-translator of Democracy is the Answer by the best-selling Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany.
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