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Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction
E-bok, 2010
87 kr
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This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south. Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English …
Under the Naked Sky
Short Stories from the Arab World
Häftad, 2001
182 kr
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Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys Johnson-Davies brings together a colourful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old …
Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim
Great Egyptian Writers
Av Tawfiq al-Hakim, Denys Johnson-Davies
E-bok, 2013
229 kr
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The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is …
Essential Yusuf Idris
Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story
Av Yusuf Idris, Denys Johnson-Davies
E-bok, 2009
229 kr
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Yusuf Idris (1927 91), who belonged to the same generation of pioneering Egyptian writers as Naguib Mahfouz and Tawfiq al-Hakim, is widely celebrated as the father of the Arabic short story. He studied and practiced medicine, but his interests were in politics and the support of the nationalist …
Essential Yusuf Idris
Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story
Av Yusuf Idris, Denys Johnson-Davies
Häftad, 2026
229 kr
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A carefully curated collection of short story masterpieces by Yusuf Idris, the Arab world’s greatest short-story writer of the twentieth century, called the “genius of the short story” by Tawfiq al-Hakim, now in paperback''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of …
Essential Yusuf Idris
Masterpieces of the Egyptian Short Story
Av Yusuf Idris, Denys Johnson-Davies
Inbunden, 2009
730 kr
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A carefully curated collection of short story masterpieces by Yusuf Idris, the Arab world’s greatest short-story writer of the twentieth century, called the “genius of the short story” by Tawfiq al-Hakim''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or the Ibo …
Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim
Great Egyptian Writers
Av Tawfiq al-Hakim, Denys Johnson-Davies
Häftad, 2013
284 kr
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A selection of the most important prose and stage works of the great Egyptian playwright of the twentieth centuryThe importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898–1987) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of …
Homecoming
Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
Häftad, 2012
197 kr
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Denys Johnson-Davies brings together this remarkable overview of the work of several generations of Egypt's leading short story writers. This selection of some fifty stories represents not only a cross-section through time but also a spectrum of styles, and includes works by Teymour, Hakki, Gohar, …
Naguib Mahfouz Reader
Av Denys Johnson-Davies, Denys Johnson-Davies
Häftad, 2016
212 kr
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Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety of genres: novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, a regular weekly newspaper column, and in later life his …
Essential Naguib Mahfouz
Novels, Short Stories, Autobiography
Av Naguib Mahfouz, Denys Johnson-Davies
Inbunden, 2011
317 kr
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A carefully curated selection of the most important works of Egypt's Nobel literature laureate in a single volumeNaguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in a variety …
Memories In Translation
A Life between the Lines of Arabic Literature
Inbunden, 2006
299 kr
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Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of our time.” With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic novels, short stories, plays, and poetry to his name, and a …
