Monarch of the Square: An Anthology of Muhammad Zafzāf's Short Stories (Middle East Literature in Translation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815633696 ISBN 13: 9780815633693

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers.

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About the Author

<p>Muhammad Zafzaf (1945–2001) was one of the most prominent writers of the Maghreb. The author of dozens of novels and short stories, Zafzaf was celebrated for his innovative, modernist, and aesthetic literature rooted in the detailed daily anxieties of the ordinary Moroccan.</p><p>Mbarek Sryfi is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct assistant professor at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey. His translations have appeared in CELAAN, Metamorphos, World Literature Today, and Banipal.</p><p>Roger Allen is Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, and professor emeritus of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania.</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815633696
• ISBN 13: 9780815633693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 285