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- Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
Engelsk Paperback

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- Sixty Years of Egyptian Short Stories
Engelsk Paperback

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"Johnson-Davies, a distinguished translator from Arabic, has produced a collection of nearly 60 Egyptian short stories that usefully adds to the growing corpus of Arab literature available in English."—Choice

Short story writing in Egypt was still in its infancy when Denys Johnson-Davies, described by Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of our time,” arrived in Cairo as a young man in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he was immediately impressed by such writing talents of the time as Mahmoud Teymour, Yahya Hakki, Yusuf Gohar, and the future Nobel literature laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and he set about translating their works for local English-language periodicals of the time.

He continued to translate over the decades, and sixty years later he 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, and Mahfouz and later writers such as Mohamed El-Bisatie, Said el-Kafrawi, Bahaa Taher, and Radwa Ashour, as well as new young writers of today like Hamdy El-Gazzar, Mansoura Ez Eldin, and Youssef Rakha.



Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
372
ISBN-13:
9789774166549
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
977416654X
Udg. Dato:
4 apr 2012
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
231mm
Forlag:
The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato:
4 apr 2012
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