The world close to the Nature. The output of Jahji Tahir Abd Allah, an Egyptian prosaist

• Authors: Machut-Mendecka E.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The Egyptian south, the Upper Egypt, with its stringent morals and hot climate, is Jahji at-Tahira Abd Allah's favourite topic. This Egyptian author ranks among the most outstanding Arabic prose writers. In his short stories and novels, he outlines an archetypal world of the south, living in a symbiosis with the nature and staying confident to the ancestral tradition. Family, patriarchal as it is, is the source of a whole array of themes to Abd Allah, including so specific ones to the region being described as endogamic marriage, family revenge or honour killings. In his prose works, this author often transgresses the illusion of the reality, turning toward a magical realism. He is also a master of parable, as makes parallel references to contemporary problems of the Arab world.

Keywords

EN

ARAB CULTURE.; EGYPTIAN POETRY; JAHJI AT-TAHIRA ABD ALLAH

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 4(106)
• Pages: 197-215
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Machut-Mendecka E.

• E. Machut-Mendecka, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03597301