by Naguib Mahfouz · Anchor · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780385469012
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«Arabian Nights and Days» is the fantasy novel by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Anchor in paperback (240 pages, in English).
Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, reworks the tales of The Thousand and One Nights into a novel of his own, populated by genies, flying carpets, Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. The work recovers Scheherazade's imaginary and turns it into an exploration of timeless truths with an imaginative and fascinating style.
The novel was originally published in Arabic in 1979; this 1995 English edition includes the translation by Denys Johnson-Davies.
For readers of fantasy and classic literature interested in Middle Eastern narrative and a modern revision of the imaginary of The Thousand and One Nights.
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".
