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Denys Johnson-Davies

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The award-winning translator of Arabic literature Denys Johnson-Davies presents an anthology of short fiction from more than half a century
"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.
Secrets Ibrahim Abdel Meguid 

Grandad Hasan Yahya Taher Abdullah 

Homecoming Yusuf Abu Rayya 

In the Place for Prayers Mohammed Afifi 

At the Level Crossing Abbas Ahmed 

Sylvia Ahmed Alaidy 

The Report of Mrs. R. Concerning the Last Day of the Week Radwa Ashour 

Drops of Lemon Juice Ibrahim Aslan 

The Palm Tree My Aunt Loved Hana Atia 

Sundown Shukri Ayyad 

A Small White Mouse Salwa Bakr 

The Days of the Black Cat Rehab Bassam 

The Room Next Door Mohamed El-Bisatie 

A House for My Children Mahmoud Diab 

Hashish Steals the Night Shehata al-Erian 

Eyes Staring into Space Mansoura Ez Eldin 

The Dancer Shawqi Faheem 

A Place under the Dome Abdul Rahman Fahmy 

The Story of Black Knight Hosam Fakhr 

Red and White Ibrahim Farghali 

The Accusation Suleiman Fayyad 

A Dog Hamdy el-Gazzar 

The Old Clothes Man Fathy Ghanem 

A Visit Gamal al-Ghitani 

Put Out Those Lights Yousef Gohar 

Cairo Is a Small City Nabil Gorgy 

The Girls and the Rooster Abdou Gubeir 

Mother of the Destitute Yahya Hakki 

The Old Man Gamil Atia Ibrahim 

Across Three Beds in the Afternoon Sonallah Ibrahim 

The Chair Carrier Yusuf Idris 

Undoing the Spell Said al-Kafrawi 

Birds' Footsteps in the Sand Edwar al-Kharrat 

The Man Who Saw the Sole of His Left Foot in a Cracked Mirror Lutfi al-Khouli 

A Murder Long Ago Naguib Mahfouz 

The Arrival Mohamed Makhzangi 

The Guard's Chair Mohamed Makhzangi 

A Lover Mohamed Makhzangi 

The Man with the Mustache and the Bow Tie Mohamed Makhzangi 

The Son, the Father, and the Donkey Sabri Moussa 

Naked He Went Off Mohamed Mustagab 

The Whistle Abd al-Hakim Qasim 

The Dental Crown Youssef Rakha 

Another Evening at the Club Alifa Rifaat 

Paradise Itself Mahmoud al-Saadani 

For the Love of God Abdul Hamid Gouda al-Sahhar 

The Snooper Mekkawi Said 

The Lost Suitcase Abdel-Moneim Selim 

The Clock Khairy Shalaby 

The Man and the Farm Yusuf Sharouni 

The Mother Ibrahim Shukrallah 

The Country Boy Yusuf al-Sibai 

Useless Cats Bahaa Taher 

The House of the Spinster Sahar Tawfiq 

Abu Arab Mahmoud Teymour 

Thirst Mahmoud Al-Wardani 

The Picture Latifa al-Zayyat

Sujets

• World Literature
• Literary
• Egipto
• Literature
• Egypt
• Middle East

Informations

• Publié par: The American University in Cairo Press
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781617972065
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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