The Return Of The Spirit
- Categories Books , Adults & General Classification , Literature & Fiction
- Stock Availability: In Stock
- ISBN: 9780143133971
- Total Pages: 384
- Available Book Formats: Paperback
- Year: 2020
Price:
JOD 14.50
First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution. Though often cited as an apprenticeship novel in the vein of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man with a touch of failed romance a la Goethe's Sorrow of Young Werther, Al-Hakim's classic is most recognized for being a trailblazing political novel that illustrates the way one man's spiritual awakening ties to a political awakening of a nation.