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Sto caricando le informazioni... Chiacchiere sul Nilo (originale 1966; edizione 1994)di Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ, Tania Dragotti, Elisabetta Landi
Informazioni sull'operaAdrift on the Nile di Naguib Mahfouz (1966)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Een groep mensen komt regelmatig bijeen op een woonboot op de Njl. Daar gebruiken ze hun vrije tijd vooral om hasj te roken met een waterpijp. Dat zijn de ogenblikken dat ze hun nihilistische levenswijze in vraag stellen. Kortom de vragen die er aan bod komen zijn van alle tijden en daardoor zet het een lezer zelf tot nadenken aan. Het boek krijgt een open einde. Tenslotte volgt er nog een korte uiteenzetting over dit boek en de schrijver. In the 1960s, a group of friends meet nightly on a houseboat on the Nile and get high. They don't concern themselves with the world around them because doing so will change nothing. Like the houseboat, they drift along, going through the motions of life, but never really getting anywhere. Then a "serious" person appears in their gathering. Will she shake them out of their lethargy? Perhaps this was not a good choice for me as an introduction to Mahfouz's work. It was written in 1966, and I know little of the time and place described. The characters are distant. Their belief in life's meaningless frustrates me; I want to shake them up, to make them do something. Is that how I was supposed to react? Or was I supposed to agree with them that life is for naught and my ideas, actions, and beliefs do nothing and mean nothing? I'm not sure I know, and that frustrates me too. All in all, it just wasn't the book for me. A group of middle age men and women gather on a houseboat every night to drink, shoot the breeze and get high, their lives marked by cynicism and ennui. Into this gathering is introduced a young journalist and aspiring playwright who seeks to overturn their dissolution. A powerful portrait of a group of people adrift in their lives, representative of a society itself adrift and lacking direction. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiGallimard, Folio (2311) Geuzenpocket (104) Volk und Welt Spektrum (204)
First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz's Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt's cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist--an "alarmingly serious person"--joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group's harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)892.736Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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