The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures
In the first story in this volume, the very short ‘‘Story in the Form of a Petition, ’’ Yahya Hakki demonstrates his ease with gentle humor, a form rare in Arabic writing. In the following two stories, ‘‘Mother of the Destitute’’ and ‘‘A Story from Prison, ’’ he describes with typical sympathy individuals who, less privileged than others, somehow manage to scrape through life’s hardships. The latter story deals with the people of Upper Egypt, for whom the writer had a special understanding and affection. It is, however, for the title story (in fact, more of a novella) of this collection that the writer is best known.
Recounting the difficulties faced by a young man who is sent to England to study medicine and who then returns to Egypt to pit his new ideals against tradition, ‘‘The Lamp of Umm Hashim’’ was the first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures.
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Denys Johnson-Davies has produced more than thirty volumes of translation of modern Arabic literature, including The Essential Tawfiq al-Hakim (AUC Press, 2008), The Essential Yusuf Idris (AUC Press, 2009), and The Essential Naguib Mahfouz (AUC Press, 2011). He was described by Edward Said as “the leading Arabic–English translator of our time.” Johnson-Davies received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in 2007 for Personality of the Year in the Field of Culture.Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Ngôn ngữ Anh ● định dạng EPUB ● Trang 106 ● ISBN 9781617970672 ● Kích thước tập tin 1.9 MB ● Phiên dịch Denys Johnson-Davies ● Nhà xuất bản The American University in Cairo Press ● Quốc gia US ● Được phát hành 2006 ● Có thể tải xuống 24 tháng ● Tiền tệ EUR ● TÔI 3426978 ● Sao chép bảo vệ Adobe DRM
Yêu cầu trình đọc ebook có khả năng DRM