Последние издания книг Нагиба Махфуза

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time

On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is the narrator, who, looking back in his old age on their seven decades together, makes the other four the heroes of his tale, a Proustian, and classically Mahfouzian, quest in search of lost time and the memory of a much-changed place.

In a seamless stream of personal triumphs and tragedies, their lives play out against the backdrop of two world wars, the 1952 Free Officers coup, the defeat of 1967 and the redemption of 1973, the assassination of a president, and the simmering uncertainties of the transitional 1980s. But as their nation grows and their neighborhood turns from the green, villa-studded paradise of their youth to a dense urban desert of looming towers, they still find refuge in the one enduring landmark in their ever-fading world: the humble coffeehouse called Qushtumur.

The Coffeehouse is a powerful and timeless novel of loss and memory from one of Egypt's most celebrated literary masters.

Als Nagib Machfus 1994 von religiösen Fanatikern attackiert wurde, war auch die rechte Hand verletzt, und er musste erst mühsam wieder schreiben lernen. In den letzten Lebensjahren entstand so ein Traumtagebuch, in dem Nagib Machfus mit höchst verdichteten Texten noch einmal etwas für die arabische Literatur Neues wagt. Schwerelos, halluzinatorisch steigen in seinen Träumen Geschichten an die Oberfläche des Bewusstseins: Bruchstücke aus seiner Kindheit, Erinnerungen an Frauen, die er geliebt hat, Episoden mit alten Weggefährten, geschichtliche Umwälzungen. Nagib Machfus folgt den Spuren der Erinnerung, er gewährt uns Einblick in seine innere Welt und wirft gleichzeitig Schlaglichter auf ein ganzes ägyptisches Jahrhundert.

Die Pension Miramar hat ihre besten Zeiten hinter sich, sie ist zum Zufluchtsort einer zusammengewürfelten Gästeschar geworden. Hier logieren die Generationen des Landes: Der Grandseigneur vergangener Revolutionen, der enteignete Großgrundbesitzer, der junge Radiosprecher, der Chefbuchhalter der Textilfabrik. Jeder versucht, sich auf seine Weise mit den neuen Verhältnissen zu arrangieren: resigniert, skeptisch, zynisch, ehrgeizig. Und alle umwerben sie die Magd Zochra, die schöne, energische Fellachin, die vor einer Zwangsheirat aus ihren Dorf geflohen ist und als einzige eine Zukunft hat. Verstrickungen ergeben sich, Intrigen, ein mysteriöser Todesfall.

"Hamida z Zaułka Midakk" to pierwsza powieść Mahfuza przełożona na język obcy (angielski w 1964 roku), a także pierwsza, która ukazuje się po polsku. Jej akcja, podobnie jak innych utworów tego autora, toczy się pośród wąskich uliczek Kairu, gdzie w starych domach mieszczą się warsztaty rękodzielnicze i małe sklepiki, a pięknie rzeźbione okiennice kryją przed światem życie rodzinne mieszkańców, z jego specyficzną obyczajowością, radościami i smutkami, nierzadko tragediami.
Taką tragiczną bohaterką jest Hamida – zaułkowa piękność, dziewczyna naiwna i prosta, ale odważnie i bez skrupułów walcząca o swoje szczęście. Pragnąc wydostać się w szeroki świat, gdzie mają się urzeczywistnić jej marzenia, nie waha się wystąpić przeciw obowiązującym normom, lekceważąc przy tym opinię bliskich i depcząc ich uczucia. Ale świat zawiódł nadzieje Hamidy. Nawet sprytnie obmyślana zemsta nie dosięgnie sprawcy jej nieszczęścia. Książka ukazała się dotychczas w 24 językach.

Cairo Modern

Karnak Cafe

Morning and Evening Talk

The Dreams

The Thief and the Dogs

The Time and the Place

The Beggar, The Thief and the Dogs, Autumn Quail

A new volume of three novels–previously published separately by Anchor–by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn Quail (published by Anchor in December 2000), these novels represent a comprehensive collection of Mahfouz’s artful meditations on post-revolution Egypt. Diverse in style and narrative technique, they render a nuanced and universally resonant vision of modern life in the Middle East.

Respected Sir, “a latter-day Bleak House in Arabic” (The New York Times), revisits a familiar theme–vaulting ambition–in a powerful and religious metaphor. Wedding Song, “one of Mahfouz’s most enjoyable works” (The Chicago Tribune), is a psychological drama, focusing on how four very different kinds of minds apprehend and reckon with the realities that surround them. The Search is a powerful, lurid, and compelling story of lust, greed, and murder.

Akhenaten

Adrift on the Nile

В III тысячелетии до Рождества Христова в стране, названной греками Дар Нила и оставившей потомкам величественные памятники и сказочные сокровища, царил легендарный Хуфу. Человек, решивший жестоко изменить волю самого Амона-Ра, правитель, который подарил миру самое первое и монументальное из всех чудес света. История жизни этого загадочного владыки до сих пор будоражит умы людей, как волновала человечество на заре цивилизации, в те времена, когда любовь, высокие амбиции, войны и предательство являлись характерными чертами той вселенной, которую создали люди ради поклонения своим богам…
Впервые издано на арабском языке в 1939 году под заглавием «Abath al-aqdar».

"Дети нашей улицы" - главный труд великого египетского писателя, лауреата Нобелевской премии Нагиба Махфуза. Это роман-притча о возникновении трех мировых религий: иудаизма, христианства и ислама, аллегория религиозной истории человечества... Истории полной соперничества и борьбы, надежд и любви, предательств и чудес, а главное - веры.

Sugar Street is the final novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.

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. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz’s vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician. Filled with compelling drama, earthy humor, and remarkable insight, Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy is the achievement of a master storyteller.

Palace of Desire is the second novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.

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. In Palace of Desire, his rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s.

Palace Walk is the first novel in Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Cairo Trilogy, an epic family saga of colonial Egypt that is considered his masterwork.

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. 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.

This much-loved Mahfouz masterpiece is a rich account of life in a back street in a poor quarter of medieval Cairo. While the novel focuses on a willful young woman whose ambition to escape the confines of the alley leads her into prostitution, a pageant of other vivid characters, from the cafe owner who likes boys to the man who creates maimed beggars and from the young man with the faithful heart to the rake and the pimp, fleshes out the picture of a society in crisis and transition. Though set during the Second World War, the characters' alienation from the prevailing political system and the desire of many of them to escape the economic and social stagnation of the alley give the work an unexpectedly up-to-date flavor. Mahfouz presents his characters with wry humor and a relish for the contradictions and fallibilities innate in people everywhere (even the alley's beloved spiritual mentor beats his wife). This new translation of one the writer's best known works has been undertaken to celebrate the centenary of his birth on 11 December 2011.