num_pages: 184
description: Includes The Song of Death, The Sultan s Dilemma, and Not a Thing Out of Place, as well as the title play, an absurdist comedy.Tawfiq al-Hakim is Egypt s most famous playwright, as well as one of its most important essayists and novelists. His clear and unaffected style has contributed to the formation of modern Arabic. Denys Johnson-Davies has published more than twenty-five volumes of stories, novels, plays, and poetry translated from modern Arabic literature. He lives in Cairo.
language: English
title: Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays
titlecomplete: Fate of a Cockroach and Other Plays
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Philosophy, Drama, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2558
publisher: Three Continents Pr