An Egyptian comedy of errors. Partly autobiographical, it is in the form of a diary by a young public prosecutor posted to a village in rural Egypt. Imbued with the ideals of a European education, he encounters a world of poverty and backwardness, red tape and incompetence of state officials.

Maze of Justice: Diary of a Country Prosecutor, an Egyptian Novel

Eban, Abba

Ḥakīm, Tawfīq

Univ of Texas Pr

Fate of a cockroach;: Four plays of freedom (African writers series, no. 117)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Heinemann Educational Books

Return of the Spirit: Tawfig Al-Hakim's Classic Novel of the 1919 Revolution : First Complete English Translation

Al-Hakim, Tawfiq

Literary

Three Continents Pr

<p>Text: English (translation)<br />
Original Language: Arabic</p>

In the Tavern of Life & Other Stories

Hutchins, William M.

Short Stories & Anthologies

In the Tavern of Life and Other Stories

Tawfīq Al-ḥakīm Wa-ʻawdat Al-waʻy

ʻaṭīyah, Rajāʼī

‏عطية، رجائي

Dār Al-shurūq

Tawfiq al-Hakim, born probably in 1899, was, with such writters as Naguib Mahfouz and Taha Hussein, one of the great formative figures of twentieth-century Egyptian literature. Immensly prolific and versatile, he was the first Arab to acquire a literary reputation as a dramatist, and was the author of more than seventy plays of remarkable variety, as well as of a number of novels, short stories, and essays. He died in 1987.This autobiographical essay, written in the simple and direct style leavened with humor for which Tawfiq al-Hakim is justly renowned, covers the early part of his iife until the mid-1930s. It represents an attempt by the author to understand himself, largely in terms of his genetic inheritance. Some readers may sense that at the heart of his relationship with his father was a demon he ultimately feared to face, but his candor produces a number of touching self-revelations. Even more substantial is the all too rare witness to the character of family and social relations in Egypt in the first quarter of the twentieth century. But most arresting and valuable of all are the author's reminiscences about the Egyptian theater in the 1920s and 1930s, providing for the historian of Arabic literature a mine of firsthand information.

The Prison of Life: An Autobiographical Essay

Al-Hakim, Tawfig

Essays & Correspondence

Amer Univ in Cairo Pr

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