The Iraqi Novel by Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham - 9780748641413

The Iraqi Novel by Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham - 9780748641413

Edinburgh University Press

The Iraqi NovelKey Writers, Key Texts\nAuthor(s): Fabio Caiani, Catherine Cobham\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9780748641413, 978-0748641413\nSynopsis\nThis exploration of the work of Iraqi novelists begins with the early pioneering works and then moves towards an outline of the vibrant Baghdad cultural scene during the 1940s and 1950s. It pays articular attention to detailed textual analysis and the evaluation and comparison of the aesthetic and poetic qualities of the key works of the four writers who form the central subject of the book: Abd al-Malik Nuri [tel], Ghaib Tuma Farman [tel], Mahdi Isa al-Saqr [tel] and Fuad al-Takarli [tel] all of whom began to write in or around the pivotal decade of the 1950s.\n\nIt is in these writers works that Iraqi fiction came of age and reached artistic maturity. The best of them are among the most complex portrayals of the particularities of life in Iraq.

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