Respected Sir

By Naguib Mahfouz

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385264798
• ISBN13: 9780385264792
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Plain Topic Made a Masterpiece!

A book about rise and fall of a civil servant. Sounds boring, huh? But Mahfouz being one of my favorite writers, I trusted him. And once again, he didn't disappoint! I read this book on an exotic Nile Cruise and it soon became more interesting than observing the shores of Nile! (can't believe I am saying this!) It is so well written. Keeps your attention to the very end. Not quite The Cairo Trilogy (my favorite), but I still give it five stars. Not to be missed!

awesome

this is the third novel of Mahfuz's i've read, and each one has been tremendous. I read "the search" years ago, and "the beggar" recently. They were both, in their own way, utterly absorbing. Presently i've just finished "respected, sir," and i admit i'm running out of accolades for this author. Certain rare writers seem to have a genius for making everything they write interesting. Mahfuz is such a writer. You enter his fictional worlds, both their rich, sense-laden outer landscapes, and the complex inner worlds of his tormented characters, and you're just hooked. No fireworks. More like quicksand. You're just sucked pleasantly, as if hypnotically (and inescapably) in, and you're not so pleased when his books end. I can't recommend this author highly enough. I feel fortunate that I've only just tapped his prodigious body of work.

the wrong conjugation

This book tells the story of a careerist who becomes CEO ... on his deathbed. It is a tale of a relentless but futile effort of a man who wants to become somebody, but who uses, as Nietzsche said, the wrong conjugation: he doesn't live, but is lived. Beautifully told. Highly recommended.

One of my favourite authors

His books are always interesting. This one is no exception. A short book but very interesting and insightful. Definitely worth reading.