Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays / Edition 2

by Tawfiq al-Hakim, Denys Johnson-Davies

Overview

Includes The Song of Death, The Sultan's Dilemma, and Not a Thing Out of Place, as well as the title play, an absurdist comedy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780894101977
Publisher:	Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/28/1994
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.66(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tawfiq al-Hakim is Egypt's most famous playwright, as well as one of its most important essayists and novelists. His clear and unaffected style has contributed to the formation of modern Arabic. The late Denys Johnson-Davies published more than twenty-five volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature. He lives in Cairo.