by Naguib Mahfouz · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757828588
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«Le Voyageur à la mallette, suivi de Le Vieux Quartier» is the book of two short stories by Naguib Mahfouz published by POINTS in paperback (112 pp., in French).
Cairo is the setting of the two stories: in the first, a man leaves with his suitcase and the farewell of his friends at the station turns the journey into a destination; in the second, an old man returns to his childhood neighbourhood and finds that the fountain and the house of his youth are no longer there. Mahfouz turns the everyday and the passage of time into fable.
It belongs to the Signatures collection from POINTS, with a translation from the Arabic by Marie Francis-Saad. It includes Naguib Mahfouz's Nobel Prize acceptance speech and a foreword by Robert Solé.
For readers of short fiction who want a sample of contemporary Arabic literature and of Naguib Mahfouz's work.
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".
