by Naguib Mahfuz · Planeta, Colección El Egipto de los Faraones, 1998, Barcelona. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439569091
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«Akhenatón, el rey hereje» is the historical novel by Naguib Mahfuz, published by Planeta in hardcover (180 pages, in Spanish).
The young Miri-Mon travels with his father and learns the story of Nefertiti, widow of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Recalling the legends about that king who broke with tradition and defied the gods, he sets off for Thebes to interview witnesses of the era. His visit to the city of Akhetaten and his encounter with Nefertiti complete the portrait of the heretic king.
This edition, published in Barcelona in 1998, belongs to the collection El Egipto de los Faraones; the translation is by Ángel Mestres Valero.
It will appeal to those who wish to glimpse pharaonic Egypt through the eyes of Naguib Mahfuz, Nobel Prize in Literature.
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".
