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The tree climber : a play in two acts

Tewfiq al-Hakim ; translated from the Arabic by Denys Johnson-Davies

(A three continents book)

Lynne Rienner, c1985

[LRP Text-in-time ed.]

  • : hardcover

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

In The Tree Climber, a detective, a lizard, a time-travelling dervish, and a magic tree all help to turn the quiet life of a married couple upside down. Tawfiq al-Hakim's plays deal with themes of universal rather than local application: the role of the artist in society, the predicament of man in the face of forces he neither controls nor understands, the use and abuse of power. In the play,. the retired Bahadair Effendi and his wife, each immured in a self-created world, are universal characters. Only the dervish is a product of the East and represents the hidden forces.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB00850651
  • ISBN
    • 9780894102042
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ara
  • Place of Publication
    Boulder
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 87 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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