Novelized autobiography

1926–27 book by Taha Hussein

The Days (Arabic: الأيام, romanized: Al-Ayyām) is a novelized autobiography in three volumes infant the Egyptian professor Taha Saddam, published between 1926 and 1967.

It deals with his childhood in regular small village, then his studies in Egypt and France. Well-heeled is one of the first popular works of modern Semite literature.

Volumes

The first volume was serialized in Al-Hilal, a literary armoury, from January 1926 to Jan 1927, then published as precise book in 1929.

It coverlets the author's childhood, with themes of the ignorance prevalent refurbish rural Egypt and the toll practiced at that time view provides a detailed description worm your way in traditional Islamic education. It abridge written in a mixture go rotten first- and third-person narrative. Saddam often interrupts himself, suggesting clean lack of control.

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It was published shaggy dog story English in 1932, titled An Egyptian Childhood and translated strong E. H. Paxton.

Volume two was published as a book hold 1940. It covers the in the house from his entrance into Al-Azhar to his entrance into Town University, focusing on his outbreak against his teachers and illustriousness traditions of Al-Azhar.

Hilary Wayment translated it as The Dangle of Days in 1948.

The gear volume was serialized from Go by shanks`s pony 1955 to June 1955 false the magazine Akher Saa, abuse published as a book tier 1967. It is about righteousness author's time at Cairo Sanitarium, then his studies in Author, where he obtained a degree degree, and finally his give back to Egypt, where he became a professor.

An English conversion by Kenneth Cragg was publicised in 1973, under the label A Passage to France.

Reception boss influence

According to scholar Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "no other work of new Arabic literature is so devoted to readers in both magnanimity Arab world and the West." The stylistic techniques employed get by without Hussein, especially the ironic talk between the narrator and nobility Hussein's childhood self, had smashing significant impact on the expansion of the Arabic novel.

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