I Found Myself...The Last Dreams
  • Published: 29 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405980944
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160

I Found Myself...The Last Dreams

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9 Sep 2025
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29 May 2025
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A surreal record of Naguib Mahfouz's dreams in the great writer's final years.

After an assassination attempt and in waning health, Naguib Mahfouz became more cautious in his twilight years. At the same time, in nightly dreams, his imagination began to roam his beloved city, Cairo, with a rare freedom.

In this collection of vivid vignettes linked together by the author’s precisely rendered nocturnal wanderings through Cairo, figures from Mahfouz’s personal life blend with his anxieties about Egypt’s political past and future. Each dream is layered with philosophical and spiritual musings, hopes and disappointments. Over the course of the book, they build to a rich and complex picture of Mahfouz’s subconscious.
  • Published: 29 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405980944
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 160
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Praise for I Found Myself...The Last Dreams

The Arab world's foremost novelist

New York Times

Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical

Los Angeles Times

The incredible variety of Naguib Mahfouz''s writings continues to dazzle our eyes

Washington Post

Mahfouz's work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Mahfouz is a storyteller of the first order in any idiom

Vanity Fair

A master of both detailed realism and fabulous storytelling

Guardian

A towering literary figure

Economist