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“Mahfouz’s characters blaze with intensity, his Egypt pulsates
with unresolved tensions.” –The Atlanta Constitution
“Through works rich in nuance–now clear-sightedly realistic, now
evocatively ambiguous–Mahfouz has formed an Arabian narrative art
that applies to all mankind.” –The Swedish Academy, The Nobel Prize
in Literature
“Mahfouz’s novels provide a voice for his culture.” –The Denver
Post
“He is not only a Hugo and a Dickens, but also a Galsworthy, a
Mann, a Zola and a Jules Romains.” –Edward Said, London Review
of Books
内容简介
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz mines the riches of his homeland’s
ancient past in Rhadopis of Nubia, an
unforgettable love story set against the high politics of Egypt’s
Sixth Dynasty.
While the ravishing courtesan Rhadopis is bathing, a falcon lifts
one of her golden sandals and drops it into the lap of the Pharaoh
Merenra II. Upon hearing Rhadopis described as “beauty itself,” the
young pharaoh decides to return Rhadopis’s sandal himself. When the
two meet, they are immediately seized by a passion far stronger
than their ability to resist. Thus begins a love affair that makes
them the envy of Egyptian society. But blinded by their love and
the extravagant attentions they lavish on each other, they ignore
the growing resentment of the world around them in this
extraordinary tale of star-crossed love.
作者简介
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when
he was seventeen. A student of philosophy and an avid reader, his
works range from reimaginings of ancient myths to subtle
commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Over a
career that lasted more than five decades, he wrote 33 novels, 13
short story anthologies, numerous plays, and 30 screenplays. Of his
many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of
Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and
Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through
three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer in Arabic to do so.
He died in August 2006.
Anthony Calderbank is the translator of Zaat by Sonallah
Ibrahim and two novels by Miral al-Tahawy, The Tent and
Blue Aubergine.