by Naguib Mahfuz, Mariano Antolín Rato · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420684772
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"The Dreams" is a collection of short stories by the renowned Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfuz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. Originally published in the Cairo magazine Nisf Al Dunia after an attack that prevented him from writing for four years, these stories emerged as an act of resistance and a declaration that his aggressors had not managed to silence his voice. In this work, Mahfuz follows the Arab literary tradition of evoking and interpreting dreams, immersing us in his inner world, where the dreamlike intertwines with reality, nostalgia mixes with desires, and impossible loves coexist with the places of his happiness. Through these stories, Mahfuz offers us memories of important people in his life, allusions to his literary works, evocations of his childhood neighborhood of Gamaliya, and reflections on the situation of his country.
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".
