Life\'s Wisdom : From The Works Of The Nobel Laureate

With a writing career spanning some seventy years, Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most recognized writers in the world. His study of philosophy at what is now Cairo University greatly influenced his works, as did his wide reading and his work in the government and in the Cinema Organization. LIfes Wisdom is a unique collection of quotations selected from the great authors works, offering philosophical insights on themes such as childhood, youth, love, marriage, war, freedom, death, the supernatural, the afterlife, the soul, immortality, and many other subjects that take us through lifes journey. Naguib Mahfouzs work abound with words of wisdom. As Nadine Gordimer states in her foreword to his Echoes of an Autobiography The essence of a writers being is in the work, not the personality, though the world values things otherwise, and would rather see what the writer looks like on television than read where he or she really is to be found in the writings. In keeping with Gordimers comment, Mahfouzs true nature can be found in his writing. The quotations included here offer a broad, yet profound, insight into the writers philosophy gained through a lifes journey of experience and writing.