Naguib Mahfouz bol egyptský spisovateľ, ktorého diela často skúmajú hlboké spoločenské a politické otázky. Jeho rozsiahla tvorba, zahŕňajúca romány, poviedky a scenáre, preniká do srdca egyptskej spoločnosti a ľudskej psychiky. Prostredníctvom svojho osobitého štýlu zachytáva komplexnosť života a hľadanie identity v meniacom sa svete. Jeho literárny odkaz rezonuje aj mimo hraníc Egypta a inšpiruje čitateľov k zamysleniu sa nad univerzálnymi témami.
Na hranici vedomia a podvedomia, sna a skutočnosti žijú postavy v Snoch. Vystupujú v nich ľudia skutoční, pričom časté sú aj návštevy zo záhrobia. Sny sú jedinečnou zbierkou príbehov a zároveň výnimočný experimentom v celej Mahfúzovej tvorbe, kde sa na minimálnom priestore naplno manifestuje autorova predstavivosť a tvorivé schopnosti. Nobelova cena za literatúru bola N. Mahfúzovi udelená v roku 1988.
Hlavný hrdina je sklamaný láskou a pomermi, ktoré doma vládnu, a tak sa vo veľmi mladom veku na odporučenie svojho učiteľa vydáva na cestu do krajiny dokonalosti.
Nadžíb Mahfúz je všeobecne uznávaným otcom arabského románu. Synom Káhiry je aj hlavný hrdina románu Zlodej a psi, ktorým autor vstupuje do republikánskeho obdobia svojej tvorby...
Children Of The Alley, by Mahfouz, NaguibThe history of a Cairo alley through several generations. Successive heroes struggle to restore the rights of the people to the trust fund set up by their ancestor Gebelaawi, usurped by embezzlers and tyrants. Mahfouz creates in all its detail a world on the frontier between the real and the imaginary. At a deeper level, the book is an allegory whose heroes relive the lives of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus and Muhammed. Their appearance in a modern context invites the reader to see them as human beings relevant to the present day, not as remote sacred figures - to the consternation of some traditionalists. Most controversial is the significance of Gebelaawi, the immensely long-lived patriarch. Mahfouz himself has said that his character represents 'not God, but a certain idea of God that men have made', standing for the god of those who forget the absolute transcendence of God affirmed by Islam.
Mahfouz's trilogy tells the story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Egypt's occupation by British forces in the early and middle years of the 20th century. Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize-winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence.Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons - the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s.Sugar Street brings Mahfouz's vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the ageing patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician. Throughout the trilogy, the family's trials mirror those of their turbulent country during the years spanning the two World Wars, as change comes to a society that has resisted it for centuries. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humour and remarkable insight, The Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller
A series of historical fiction based on the life of a family living in Cairo during the British Colonial period and afterward
The history of a Cairo alley through several generations. Successive heroes struggle to restore the rights of the people to the trust fund set up by their ancestor Gebelaawi, usurped by embezzlers and tyrants. Mahfouz creates in all its detail a world on the frontier between the real and the imaginary. At a deeper level, the book is an allegory whose heroes relive the lives of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Moses, Jesus and Muhammed. Their appearance in a modern context invites the reader to see them as human beings relevant to the present day, not as remote sacred figures - to the consternation of some traditionalists. Most controversial is the significance of Gebelaawi, the immensely long-lived patriarch. Mahfouz himself has said that his character represents 'not God, but a certain idea of God that men have made', standing for the god of those who forget the absolute transcendence of God affirmed by Islam.
In paperback for the first time, Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz's bestselling Palace of Desire will be published to coincide with Doubleday's publication of Sugar Street, the third and final volume of the Cairo Trilogy.
With a writing career spanning some seventy years, Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most recognized writers in the world. His study of philosophy at what is now Cairo University greatly influenced his works, as did his wide readings and his work in the government and in the Cinema Organization. The Wisdom of Naguib Mahfouz, like the earlier Life's Wisdom, is a unique collection of quotations selected from the great author's works, offering philosophical insights on themes such as childhood, youth, love, marriage, war, freedom, death, the supernatural, the afterlife, the soul, immortality, and many other subjects that take us through life's journey.