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The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

The Journey of Ibn Fattouma

Mahfouz, Naguib

Paperback

FantasyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0385423349
ISBN13: 9780385423342
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 1 1993
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.28 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
In this provocative and dreamy parable, a young man disillusioned by the corruption of his homeland sets out on a quest to find Gebel, the land of perfection, from which no one has ever returned. On his way, Ibn Fattouma passes through a series of very different lands--realms where the moon is worshipped, where marriage does not exist, where kings are treated like gods, and where freedom, toleration, and justice are alternately held as the highest goods. All of these places, however, are inevitably marred by the specter of war, and Ibn Fattouma finds himself continually driven onward, ever seeking. Like the protagonists of A Pilgrim's Progress and Gulliver's Travels, Naguib Mahfouz's hero travels not through any recognizable historical landscape, but through timeless aspects of human possibility.

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