I Found Myself: Last Dreams by Mahfouz, Naguib

I Found Myself: Last Dreams

I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, visiting my mother. She received me with...
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Author: Naguib Mahfouz
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Language: English
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I Found Myself: Last Dreams by Mahfouz, Naguib

I Found Myself: Last Dreams

$25.86

I Found Myself: Last Dreams

$25.86
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Format: Paperback
Language: English

I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, visiting my mother. She received me with perplexing indifference and then left the room. I assumed she'd gone to make coffee, but she never returned. [Dream 216]

In his final years, the Egyptian master storyteller and Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz drew on his dreams, combining the mystery of what we experience in the night with the deep wells of his narrative art. These last dreams, stunning poetic vignettes--now brought beautifully into English for the first time by the acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar--appear here with dreamlike photographs by the famous American photographer Diana Matar, which both mysteriously rhyme with Mahfouz's nocturnal reveries and, allowing the reader a chance to dream in turn, open up the texts. These sketches and stories are tersely haunting miniatures. Recurring female characters may be figures of Cairo herself, especially one much-missed lover from Mahfouz's youth. Friends, family, rulers of Egypt, and many beautiful women all float through these affecting brief tales dreamed by a mind too fertile ever to rest, even in slumber. A tender and personal introduction by Hisham Matar, recollecting how he and his wife met Mahfouz in Cairo not long after the assassination attempt on the author, is moving and likewise indelible.



Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 07/22/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.91h x 6.08w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780811231022


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2025
Booklist 04/11/2025
Publishers Weekly 05/19/2025
Shelf Awareness 07/19/2025

About the Author
Mahfouz, Naguib: - Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. Of his nearly forty novels, the most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.

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