Distant View of a Minaret and Other StoriesWaveland Press, 16 בינו׳ 2014 - 116 עמודים “More convincingly than any other woman writing in Arabic today, Alifa Rifaat lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.” So states the translator’s foreword to this collection of the Egyptian author’s best short stories. Rifaat (1930–1996) did not go to university, spoke only Arabic, and seldom traveled abroad. This virtual immunity from Western influence lends a special authenticity to her direct yet sincere accounts of death, sexual fulfillment, the lives of women in purdah, and the frustrations of everyday life in a male-dominated Islamic environment. Translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies, the collection admits the reader into a hidden private world, regulated by the call of the mosque, but often full of profound anguish and personal isolation. Badriyya’s despairing anger at her deceitful husband, for example, or the haunting melancholy of “At the Time of the Jasmine,” are treated with a sensitivity to the discipline and order of Islam. |
תוכן
| 1 | |
| 5 | |
Telephone Call | 13 |
Thursday Lunch | 17 |
An Incident in the Ghobashi Household | 23 |
Badriyya and Her Husband | 29 |
Me and My Sister | 39 |
Mansoura | 47 |
The Long Night of Winter | 55 |
My World of the Unknown | 61 |
At the Time of the Jasmine | 77 |
The Flat in Nakshabandi Street
| 89 |
Degrees of Death | 103 |
The Kite | 107 |
Just Another Day | 113 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Distant View of a Minaret: And Other Stories <span dir=ltr>Alifa Rifaat</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 1987 |