Echoes of an Autobiography - Couverture souple

Mahfouz, Naguib

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385485565 ISBN 13 : 9780385485562

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

Echoes of an Autobiography In his first work of nonfiction to be published in the United States, Naguib Mahfouz considers the myriad perplexities of existence, including his preoccupations with old age, death and life's transitory nature. Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 an Autobiography provides a unique opportunity to catch an intimate glimpse into the life and mind of this magnificent storyteller.  Here, in his first work of nonfiction ever to be published in the United States, Mahfouz considers the myriad perplexities of existence, including preoccupations with old age, death, and life's transitory nature.  A surprising and delightful departure from his bestselling and much-loved fiction, this unusual and thoughtful book is breathtaking evidence of the fact that Naguib Mahfouz is not only a "storyteller of the first order" ( Vanity Fair), but also a profound  thinker of the first order.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385485565
• ISBN 13: 9780385485562
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144