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Translator's Introduction
It is not often that preachers lead their flocks into the streets to shout for
the banning of a novel hailed by many as a masterpiece, nor that the
editor of a great newspaper has to rely on his friendship with the Head of
State to ensure that a serial is published uncut to the end. But this is what
happened in Nasser's Egypt in 1959 when the semi-official Al-Ahram
printed "Children of Gebelawi' by Naguib Mahfouz. So great was the
uproar that no Egyptian publisher dared bring it out in book form, and
for years it passed from hand to hand in the newspaper version. It was
only in 1967, and in Lebanon, that it was at last made available, slightly
expurgated, by Dar-al-Adab.
The reason for these strong reactions was that Naguib Mahfouz had
boldly taken up the issues that most deeply divide Egypt and, perhaps,
the world. The successive heroes of his imaginary Cairo alley relive
unawares the lives of Adam, Moses, Jesus and Mohameed; an . . .
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From: VAX::LOU "Lou Burnard" 10-JAN-1989 14:53:22.09
To: ARCHIVE
CC:
Subj: fanshawe's lusiad book 1
From: CBS%UK.AC.BANGOR.COMPLAB.VAXA::V002 10-JAN-1989 14:52:01.02
To: lou
CC:
Subj:
Via: UK.AC.BANGOR.VAXA; Tue, 10 Jan 89 14:51 GMT
Date: 10-JAN-1989 14:48:54 GMT
From: V002@UK.AC.BANGOR.COMPLAB.VAXA
To: lou@UK.AC.OX.VAX
Arms, and the men above the vulgar file,
Who from the Western Lusitanian shore
Past even beyond the Trapobanian Isle,
Through seas which never ship has sailed before;
Who (brave in action, patient in long toil,
Beyond what strength of human nature bore)
'Mongst nations, under other stars, acquired.
A modern sceptre which to heaven aspired.
Likewise those Kings of glorious memory,
Who sowed and propagated where they passed
The faith with the new empire (making dry
The breasts of Asia, and laying waste
Black Afric's vicious glebe) and those who by
Their deeds at home left not their names defaced,
My song shall spread where ever there are men,
If wit an . . .
