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Adrift on the Nile (Thartharah fawqa al-Nīl, Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل) is a 1966 book by Egyptian author and Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The novel was later made into a 1971 film, Chitchat on the Nile. It was translated from Arabic into English in 1993 by Frances Liardet and published by Doubleday.
4 mars 2011 · A review of Mahfouz's novel about a group of aimless friends who smoke kif and dream of ancient times on a houseboat on the Nile. The novel offers a glimpse of a more peaceful time in Egypt and a contrast with the current turmoil.
A group of friends meet weekly on a Nile houseboat to smoke hookah and discuss philosophy: lots of societal obligations, gender roles, absurdity, and nihilism. It is staged and written like a play, and that style works very well throughout the short book (my copy was just over 160 pages).
In the late 1960's a group of friends meet night after night on a house-boat moored along the banks of the Nile to escape the seriousness overtaking their country. But one night, art and reality collide--with unforeseen consequences.
1 mai 2021 · Adrift on the Nile. by. Maḥfūẓ, Najīb, 1911-2006. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Egypt -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Nile River -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : Anchor Books.
10 févr. 1993 · Ten young professionals spend their evenings drifting in a houseboat on the Nile until a senseless tragedy splits them apart—in a brief 1966 novel, the most clearly modernist work yet translated into English by the Nobel-winning author of The Cairo Trilogy.
1 janv. 1993 · In Nobel Prize winner Mahfouz's newly translated work, a houseboat on the Nile is a nightly diversion for a small circle of friends. Careers in the arts, business, law, and civil service are forgotten as the waterpipe makes its rounds, the intoxicating kif erasing all sense of responsibility.
