Cairo Modern

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Naguib Mahfouz Professor Philosophy and Religion Department William M Hutchins (Appalachian State University)

Cairo Modern

Naguib Mahfouz, Professor Philosophy and Religion Department William M Hutchins (Appalachian State University)

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English

Anchor Books
15 May 2010

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Newly translated, Cairo Modern is the tale of a doomed menage a trois.

In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed menage

trois.

Cairo of the 1930s is a place of vast social and economic inequities. It is also a time of change, when the universities have just opened to women and heady new philosophies imported from Europe are stirring up debates among the young. Mahgub is a fiercely proud student who is determined to keep both his poverty and his lack of principles secret from his idealistic friends. When he finds that there are no jobs for those without connections, out of desperation he agrees to participate in an elaborate deception. But what begins as a mere strategy for survival soon becomes much more for both Mahgub and his partner in crime, an equally desperate young woman named Ihsan. As they make their way through Cairo's lavish high society their precarious charade begins to unravel and the terrible price of Mahgub's Faustian bargain becomes clear.

Translated by William M. Hutchins

By: Naguib Mahfouz
Translated by: Professor Philosophy and Religion Department William M Hutchins (Appalachian State University)
Imprint: Anchor Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 252g
ISBN: 9780307473530
ISBN 10: 0307473538
Pages: 243
Publication Date: 15 May 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 2006.

Reviews for Cairo Modern

Intriguing.... Dostoyevskyan.... Mahfouz's brilliance lies in portraying the mixture of good and evil in human character.... Mahfouz was Egypt's Balzac. -The New York Times