أرض الحبايب بعيدة - رحلة نقدية في حياة وأعمال بيرم التونسي

by Marilyn Booth, سحر توفيق (ترجمة), إبراهيم فتحي (مراجعة)

Mahmud Bayram al-Tunisi has, through his political commitment and the popular orientation of his literary works, become something of a folk hero in Egypt. This book presents a discussion of the context of his work, and of the intellectual development and stylistic innovations that occurred within his writing. Following a biographical sketch in which close attention is paid to his journalistic activity in Tunisia and Egypt, the study analyses the way in which the connection developed between al-Tunisi's political attitudes and the original manner in which he chose to write. Three sets of texts, which were originally published in the 1920s and revised and republished a decade later, are analysed both for their literary style and for their political rhetoric. These texts include narrative poems and prose dialogues written in colloquial Arabic, as well as satirical maqamat. Al-Tunisi's choice of form and the register of his literary diction demonstrate the link between textual structure and political intent. Appendices include annotated translations of selected poems, details of the periodicals to which al-Tunisi contributed, and bibliographical information on the texts analysed in the course of the study.

664 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Her most recent monograph, The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt (2021), is amongst numerous publications on early feminism, translation, and Arabophone women’s writing in Egypt and Ottoman Syria. Initiator of the Ottoman Translation Studies Group, she edited Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Translator of eighteen published works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, she was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies.

Reviews

[Eng. Mohamed ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

دراسة اكاديمية ممتعة وغنية عن بيرم التونسى .ادبه وحياته .امام شخص كبيرم التونسى تشعر بالضألة من كفاحه وصعوبة ما مر به ...لقد تحمل هذا الرجل الكثير ..الدراسة فى حد ذاتها ممتازة وغير انها تبرز ادب بيرم التونسى ومراحل تطوره فهى ايضا عرض لتاريخ الوطن العربى ومصر بالتحديد وفرنسا فى مرحلة مهمه من تاريخنا الحديث فى بدايات القرن لعشرين

[Magdy Samy · Rating 4 out of 5]

دراسة حلوة جدا ومعمول فيها مجهود مش طبيعي خالص الحقيقة توتالي ريكومندد
بغض النظر ان الترجمة كان ممكن تكون احسن من كدا

[Andy Larter · Rating 3 out of 5]

If this is 'Celestial Bodies' by Jokha Alharti (trans. by Marilyn Booth, then I've read it and it was OK.

[Sara Razek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Outstanding scholarship!