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ثرثرة فوق النيل

Naguib Mahfouz

Paperback | Pages: 161 pages

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Original Title:	ثرثرة فوق النيل
ISBN:	9770915890 (ISBN13: 9789770915899)
Edition Language:	Arabic URL http://www.shorouk.com/books/details.aspx?b=cbcf79bc-ca0e-4dbc-abfd-a31c574696bb
Setting:	Cairo(Egypt)

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What?! I didn't write my review yet? Sorry about that, folks. Luckily I scribbled some notes down in a notebook while I read it so I think I might be able pull together a few reflections. This book is a little odd, and not being a Naguib Mahfouz aficionado (yet), I'm not sure how it compares to his other books. It is a slim volume and a fast read. I enjoyed the prose immensely and did not feel like I was reading a translation (someday I will read it in Arabic! Someday, where are you?? Why are you so slow in getting here?) but something funny happened to me while I was reading it. After reading the first page or so I said to myself, "Huh? I've seen this movie!" so i stopped to do a Google search as a check against possible insanity. In this case, I was right, there is a film and I have seen it. Oddly, I cannot remember when or where but I think it must have been sometime in 2007 or 2008. Then another funny thing happened as I continued to read. I thought to myself, "I've read this before!" I am sure of it, but unlike in the case of the film, I have absolutely no recollection of when that was.

Luckily for me, this book, even though it comes across as somewhat simple, has a lot for the reader to get into and think about. In fact, I gave it four stars because there were aspects that I did not understand at all and I have no way of knowing right now if I would give it five stars if I had understood these things. So after a third or fifth or sixth or fourth reading, I might amend my rating.

Clearly I can't count, but that's not important.

Anyway, from my philistine vantage, I thought the story was nearly perfect in the way it introduced the characters, built tension, and carried its themes (absurdity versus meaning, first and foremost; how a person functions or doesn't function in a society or political system that is functional or dysfunctional) through to the end. However, the ending itself was odd and confusing to me. I didn't feel like I had read a proper ending. I turned the page looking for more text but didn't find any. So I returned to the previous page and read it again. Same feeling. This time I turned the page and checked the binding to see if the last page had been torn out. Nope. Another reason for four stars instead of five, actually; although I am not sure if the problem is with me or the book. Sayyid Mahfouz, what was your intent??

I know the bare basics of Egypt's modern history, but reading this book returned a feeling to me that I had felt when I visited Egypt in the winter of 2007--I want to learn more about all of Egypt's history. Ancient history is not boring! Nor is the history between ancient and now (or rather, Nasser's period, since that is the setting of the book and also when it was written). Anis, the protagonist, has fairly consistent hallucinations (I think they are hallucinations) throughout the story about historical figures and events--he receives a number of visits from Jonah's whale, for instance, emerging from the Nile--and although I'm familiar with each of them, I do not know their significance to an Egyptian person (or if they are even at all significant to an Egyptian person). Without that, I confess to feeling a little bit lost in that layer of the story.

Perhaps someday Anis's hallucinations will make sense to me.

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Title	:	ثرثرة فوق النيل
Author	:	Naguib Mahfouz
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 161 pages
Published	:	2006 by دار الشروق (first published 1966)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Northern Africa. Egypt. Literature. Philosophy. Classics. 20th Century

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Wasnt in the mood. A bit to bougie for me.

Mahfouz tells a great story. This one's spun around a pretty simple plot, about a group of professionals who embrace their feeling of irrelevance to history quite cheerfully, until history intervenes and makes clear their implication in it. A kind of resolution of their meaning dialogue, which has been loosely structured around an argument between seriousness of purpose (brought to bear by a woman outsider, who troubles the group by not quite fitting their expectations) and acknowledging,

What?! I didn't write my review yet? Sorry about that, folks. Luckily I scribbled some notes down in a notebook while I read it so I think I might be able pull together a few reflections. This book is a little odd, and not being a Naguib Mahfouz aficionado (yet), I'm not sure how it compares to his other books. It is a slim volume and a fast read. I enjoyed the prose immensely and did not feel like I was reading a translation (someday I will read it in Arabic! Someday, where are you?? Why are

This glimpse of intellectual Egyptian life in the 1960s was reminiscent of Albert Camus, and a stark contrast to the way Egypt is depicted in literature and media today.A group of friends meet weekly on a Nile houseboat to smoke hookah and discuss philosophy: lots of societal obligations, gender roles, absurdity, and nihilism. It is staged and written like a play, and that style works very well throughout the short book (my copy was just over 160 pages). I enjoyed the peek into life in this

I was very disappointed, being a huge fan of Mahfouz' work. This book seemed like a random rant/ rambling. A story of a group of people who get together and get high, and philosophize. But to me, despite some good lines and several interesting turns in the story, it seemed like good old Naguib got high himself and rambled on and on. I would not recommend this book, and I can't wait to start reading some of his better stuff.

I had no expectation when I was about to read this story. The beginning was interesting, but I started to doubt when almost half of book had 'random talks' with no plot happened. I might not really understand what philosophy they talked about. They definitely talked about existensialism. But 1/4 near end of the book, the tension rose. And everything started to pace faster and faster. From the beginning, it was hard to tell where the story would bring. I enjoyed how the main character started to

For the entire duration of this book, I wished I had the original Arabic version or that I could see the movie. I speak a little Arabic, enough that I could probably make sense of story if I had a dictionary on hand and a lot of patience. Reading it was similar to how I've experienced the few plays that I've read - I had the sense that the bare bones of the characterization was there, that there are some compelling things going on, but I needed something else to make the characters really seem