The little Bookseller Oustaz Ali

By Ahmed Rassim

Poetry. This selection of poems and prose by Ahmed Rassim introduces English readers to the leading French-language Egyptian poet of the first half of the twentieth century. Admired by his fellow Alexandrian, Constantine Cavafy, Rassim's gently melancholic poems blend the antics of French surrealist writing with a highly personalized--one might call it "mock-arabesque"--oriental style. His whimsical prose chronicles his life as a civil servant in Cairo and Alexandria. Introduction by Gabriel Levin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9659012446
• ISBN13: 9789659012442
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Ibis Press
• Length: 96 Pages