Nagib Mahfuz citáty
Nagib Mahfuz
Datum narození: 11. prosinec 1911
Datum úmrtí: 30. srpen 2006
Nagíb Mahfúz byl egyptský romanopisec, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1988.
Citáty Nagib Mahfuz
„…ve jménu třetího světa: Nebuďte diváky našeho utrpení.“
Originál: (en) in the name of the Third World: Be not spectators to our miseries.
Zdroj: [Draugsvold, Ottar G., 2000, Nobel Writers on Writing, McFarland, 173, angličtina, 9780786406296]
„Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.“
— Naguib Mahfouz, kniha Palace of Desire
Zdroj: Palace of Desire
„Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.“
Mahfouz (1957) Palace of Desire Part II; Cited in Matt Schudel " Leading Arab Novelist Gave Streets a Voice http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000475.html" in: Washington Post, August 31, 2006
„You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.“
Cited in: Michael J. Gelb (1996) Thinking for a change: discovering the power to create, communicate and lead. p. 96
„Naguib Mahfouz, an Egyptian novelist who was the first Arabic writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature and who was often considered the greatest writer in the Arab world… lived his entire life in Cairo, which provided the inspiration and backdrop for almost all of his writing… He set most of his works in the ancient Islamic quarter of Cairo, with its mosques and serpentine alleys teeming with shopkeepers, metalsmiths, government workers, peasants, prostitutes and thieves. His vibrant novels portraying life at every level of society were often likened to those of such other writers of urban social realism as Charles Dickens, Honore de Balzac and Emile Zola.“
Matt Schudel " Leading Arab Novelist Gave Streets a Voice http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083000475.html" in: Washington Post, August 31, 2006
„According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.“
Naguib Mahfouz in: Gary Dexter (2010) Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective Form Amis to Zola. p. 226
„It was amazing that in this country where people allowed emotion to guide their politics they approached love with the precision of accountants.“
— Naguib Mahfouz, kniha Sugar Street
Mahfouz (1957) Sugar Street
„God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.“
Attributed to Naguib Mahfouz in: Thorntize (2009) The Handbook of Wisdom and Delight. p. 121
