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Respected sir

Othman Bayyumi's humble origins do not stop him from coveting the Director-Generalship of the governmental department he has entered as an archives clerk. This vision becomes a lifelong pursuit, superseding all other interests and people in his life.

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  • "With this portrait of a misanthropic civil servant, the Egyptian Nobel laureate devises a cunning send-up of egregious ambition, stodgy bureaucracy and cloying piety. Mahfouz's overblown language mirrors the grandiose aspirations of his protagonist Othman Bayyumi, a common archives clerk who schemes for a lofty appointment as Director General, expounding that "a government position is a brick in the edifice of the state, and the state is an exhalation of the spirit of God, incarnate on earth." As Egypt experiences the birth pangs of nationalism, Othman remains an apolitical, selfish loner wallowing in his self-imposed misery, who fawns over his superiors, works like a dervish and squirrels away his money, his only physical pleasures the visits he pays religiously to a prostitute, which "were usually followed by a wholehearted plea for forgiveness and a prolonged resort to prayer and worship."45 Envisioning marriage as a means to forge social connections that will launch him to glory, he viciously turns down prospective brides; because no one is good enough for him, he ends up in his later years with two wives, one a opium-addict aging prostitute, the other a young woman who uses him as he sought to use others. -- from http://www.amazon.ca (April 26, 2011)."
  • "Sociaal-realistische roman over de eenzaamheid van de mens en de rol van ziekte in het persoonlijke en maatschappelijke leven."
  • "Othman Bayyumi's humble origins do not stop him from coveting the Director-Generalship of the governmental department he has entered as an archives clerk. This vision becomes a lifelong pursuit, superseding all other interests and people in his life."@en
  • "Novel by the Nobel prize winning Egyptian author."

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Popular literature"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Roman égyptien moderne"
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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Ehrenwerter Herr"
  • "Hadrat al-muhtaram"
  • "Ḥaḍrat ʼal-muḥtaram"
  • "Hadra al-muhtaram : Eerwaarde heer"
  • "Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram : [riwāyah]"
  • "Ḥaḍraẗ al-muḥtaram"
  • "Un Señor muy respetable"
  • "Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram"
  • "Ehrenwerter Herr : Roman"
  • "Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram [riwāyah]"
  • "Haḍrat al-muḥtaram"
  • "Respected sir"@en
  • "Respected sir"
  • "Un señor muy respetable"
  • "Un señor muy respetable"@es
  • "حضرة المحترم : [رواية]"
  • "Son excellence"
  • "<&gt"@ar
  • "<&gt"
  • "Respected Sir"
  • "Respected Sir"@en
  • "Hadra al-muhtaram"
  • "حضرة المحترم"
  • "Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtarām"
  • "Ḥaḍrat al-muḥtaram : [riwāya]"
  • "Poštovani gospodin"
  • "Son Excellence"
  • "Ḥadrat al-muḥtaram : [riwāyah]"
  • "Un seǫr muy respetable"@es

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