by Naguib Mahfuz · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401385216
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«Un señor muy respetable» is the contemporary novel by Naguib Mahfuz, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
In modern Egypt, Uzmán Bayyumi, a public employee, turns his career into an obsession: becoming director general. His ambition leads him to sacrifice affections and experiences, and the narrative dissects with irony the Egyptian bureaucracy, social hypocrisy, and the passage of time.
Translation by María Luisa Prieto. Edition from the Ave Fénix collection, Mayor series, no. 21.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Egyptian literature, and for followers of Mahfuz's narrative.
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".
