by Naguib Mahfouz · Anchor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385264563
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«The Beggar» is the fiction novel by Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize in Literature, published in paperback by Anchor in 1990 (140 pages, in English).
Omar al-Halzawi, a former revolutionary settled into Cairo's bourgeoisie, gets entangled in illicit affairs and neglects work, friendships, and family in search of psychological renewal. Mahfouz thus portrays alienation and hopelessness, raising a passionate protest against irrelevance in post-Nasser-revolution Egypt.
Work originally published in Arabic as Al-Shahhadh in 1965; English translation by Kristin Walker Henry and Nariman Khales Naili al-Warraki.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary classics, especially those interested in Egyptian narrative and post-revolution Egypt.
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".
