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The essential Tawfiq al-Hakim : plays, fiction, autobiography /
The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2008.
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| Edición: | [CA & US only version]. |
| Colección: | Modern Arabic literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. In this volume, Tawfiq al-Hakim's fame as a playwright is given prominence. Of the more than seventy plays he wrote, The Sultan's Dilemma, dealing with a historical subject in an appealingly light-hearted manner, is perhaps the best known; it a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (233 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9789774165924 9774165926 9781936190348 1936190346 9781617971662 1617971669 |