The Days An Autobiography in Three Parts

Taha Hussein's classic autobiographical novel The Days helped usher in the era of modern Arabic writing and remains one of the most influential and best-known works of Arabic literature

"It is difficult to overstate Taha Hussein's contribution to the intellectual renaissance in Egypt during the 20th century."-The Guardian

The monumental three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is again available in a single paperback in this classic reissue. The first part, An Egyptian Childhood (1929), is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It tells of Hussein's childhood and early education in a small village in Upper Egypt, as he learns not only to come to terms with his blindness but to excel in spite of it and win a place at the prestigious Azhar University in Cairo. The second part, The Stream of Days: A Student at the Azhar (1939), is an enthralling picture of student life in Egypt in the early 1900s, and the record of the growth of an unusually gifted personality. More than forty years later, Hussein published A Passage to France (1973), carrying the story on to his final attainment of a doctorate at the Sorbonne, a saga of perseverance in the face of daunting odds.

Info autore

Taha Hussein
Foreword by Roger Allen

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Taha Hussein
• Con la collaborazione di: Kenneth Cragg (Traduzione), E H Paxton (Traduzione), Hilary Wayment (Traduzione), E. H. Paxton (Traduzione), E.H. Paxton (Traduzione)
• Editore: The American University in Cairo Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2026
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Libri scolastici > Corsi per adulti / università popolare > Materiali per università popolare / materiali per; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
• EAN: 9781649032614
• ISBN: 978-1-64903-261-4
• Numero di pagine: 370
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 22.9 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 526 g