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Subject(s)

• Ghali, Waguih -1969—Diaries [Browse]
• Athill, Diana—Interviews [Browse]
• Exiles' writings [Browse]

Interviewee

Starr, Deborah A., 1968- [Browse]

Editor

Hawas, May Mohamed Nabil [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Diaries [Browse]

Summary note

"In 1968 Egyptian novelist and political exile Waguih Ghali committed suicide in the London flat of his editor, friend, and sometime lover, Diana Athill. Ghali left behind six notebooks of diaries that for decades were largely inaccessible to the public. 'An Egyptian in the Swinging Sixties' is the first publication of its kind of the journals, casting fascinating light on a likeable and highly enigmatic literary personality. Waguih Ghali (1930-69), author of the acclaimed novel 'Beer in the Snooker Club', was a libertine, sponger, and manic depressive, but also an extraordinary writer, a pacifist, and a savvy political commentator. Covering the last four years of his life, Ghali's Diaries offer an exciting glimpse into London's swinging sixties.Moving from West Germany to London and Israel, and back in memory to Egypt and Paris, the entries boast of endless drinking, countless love affairs, and of mingling with the dazzling intellectuals of London, but the Diaries also critique the sinister political circles of Jerusalem and Cairo, describe Ghali's trepidation at being the first Egyptian allowed into Israel after the 1967 War, and confess in detail the pain and difficulties of writing and exile."--Book jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• volume 1. 1964-66. Interview with Diana Athill / by Deborah Starr
• The diaries of Waguih Ghali. Going mad ; All my resolutions ; London ; Yesterday spent a quiet evening at home ; It is, I suppose, time to reckon up again
• volume 2. 1966-68.

Place name(s)

Egypt Cairo.

ISBN

• 9789774167805 ((volume 1))
• 9774167805 ((volume 1))
• 9789774168123 ((volume 2))

OCLC

947145405

RCP

H - S

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