Isbn: 9789774162428 - the essential yusuf idris: masterpieces of the egyptian short story (great egyptian writers) (5 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A carefully curated collection of short story masterpieces from the 'genius of the short story' (Tawfiq al-Hakim) andthe Arab world's greatest short-story writer of the twentieth century''Like the Russian aristocrats of Chekhov, the provincial bourgeoisie of Flaubert, or the Ibo villagers of Achebe, Idris raises his authentic characters into convincing types within their context: he makes us live their agonies and hopes.''Ferial GhazoulYusuf Idris (192791), 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 struggle, and in writingand his writing, whether in his regular newspaper columns or in his fiction, often reflected his political convictions. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature more than once, and when the prize went to Naguib Mahfouz in 1988, Idris felt that he had been passed over because of his outspoken views on Israel. In all, Yusuf Idris wrote some twelve collections of superbly crafted short stories, mainly about ordinary, poor people, many of which have been translated into English and are included, along with an extract from one of his novels, in this collection of the best of his work. …

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorYusuf Idris was one of the great figures of twentieth-century Arabic literature. He was born in 1927, graduated from medical college in 1951, and practiced medicine for several years. His first collection of .