by Naguib Mahfouz · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070384235
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«Dérives sur le Nil» is the novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Folio in paperback (192 pages, in French).
A houseboat on the Nile, in Cairo, gathers each night disillusioned intellectuals who escape reality with hashish, absurd humour and nihilistic talk. The arrival of young journalist Samara Bahjat, unfamiliar with that routine, triggers a conflict that forces the group to choose between coherence and comfort.
1991 edition, number 2311 in the Folio collection. Translated from Arabic by France Douvier Meyer, with revision by Selma Fakhry Fourcassié and Bernard Wallet; the original was published in 1966.
For readers of Egyptian literature and of the work of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, with its blend of humour, social criticism and philosophical reflection.
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Egyptian narrative art that applies to all mankind".
