ECHOES OF AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY(ISBN=) 英文原版

From the Foreword by Nadine Gordimer: “These pieces are
meditations which echo that which was, has been, and is the writer
Mahfouz. They are–in the words of the title of one of the prose
pieces–‘The Dialogue of the Late Afternoon’ of his life. I don’t
believe any autobiography, with its inevitable implication of
self-presentation, could have matched what we have here.”

        With more than
500,000 copies of his books in print, Naguib Mahfouz has
established a following of readers for whom Echoes of an
Autobiography provides a unique opportunity to catch an
intimate glimpse into the life and mind of this magnificent
storyteller. Here, in his first work of nonfiction ever to be
published in the United States, Mahfouz considers the myriad
perplexities of existence, including preoccupations with old age,
death, and life’s transitory nature. A surprising and delightful
departure from his bestselling and much-loved fiction, this unusual
and thoughtful book is breathtaking evidence of the fact that
Naguib Mahfouz is not only a “storyteller of the first order”
(Vanity Fair), but also a profound thinker of the first
order.