ISBN10: 0313268762, ISBN13: 9780313268762, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. In November 1988 Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arab writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this study of his writings only now being widely translated into English, Haim Gordon, an Israeli professor committed to intercultural dialogue, examines Mahfouz's work from an existential perspective. While Mahfouz is first and foremost a storyteller, he gives the reader an extra baksheesh. By telling stories of persons from all walks of life--civil servants, peasants, pimps, lawyers, and businessmen--Mahfouz depicts the existential problems that Egyptians face today. Using a Socratic approach, Gordon questioned Mahfouz directly in a series of personal interviews conducted over the past ten years. In these interviews Gordon probed the existential themes in the characters, plots, and issues raised in Mahfouz's stories. The result is an intimate and highly personal look at life in Egypt.As a very involved and critical onlooker, Haim Gordon addresses the problems facing contemporary Egyptians as portrayed in Mahfouz's stories: the Egyptian's flight from freedom and confrontation, the niggar situation of Egyptian women, the debilitating effects of poverty, the blatant oppression of political rights, the degradation of true faith and the lack of spirituality. Mahfouz's stories reveal that which western scholars unintentionally, ...

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New York Praeger 1990 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 152 p. Contributions to the Study of World Literature, 38.

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Westport, CT Praeger 1990 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 152 p. Contributions in Military Studies, 38.

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Westport:: Greenwood Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1990. Hardcover. 0313268762 . First printing. About fine in like dust jacket. . 1990. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313268762 US

Westport:: Greenwood Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Date: 1990. Hardcover. 0313268762 . First printing. About fine in like dust jacket. . 1990. Greenwood Press, ISBN 0313268762 9780313268762 [US]

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ISBN10: 0313268762, ISBN13: 9780313268762, [publisher: Greenwood Press] Hardcover Volume 38. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780313268762
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1990]

ISBN10: 0313268762, ISBN13: 9780313268762, [publisher: Greenwood Press] Hardcover Volume 38. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780313268762
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1990]