Patrizia Zanelli
Articles and Reviews Published for La rivista di Arablit
Da Piazza al-Taḥrīr all’Università del Cairo, pagine di narrativa araba contemporanea.
Articolo della rivista, Anno I, numero 1, giugno 2011
This essay clearly inspired by recent revolutionary events in Egypt is focused on various narratives dealing with important moments of change witnessed by the country during the twentieth century. These works are either autobiographies or novels containing different extents of autobiographism. The memoirs of Hudà al-Ša'rāwī, Inğī Aflaṭūn and Laṭīfah [...]
Il tempo e il cambiamento in alcuni racconti della raccolta al-Faǧr al-kāḏib di Naǧīb Maḥfūẓ
Articolo della rivista, Anno II, numero 3, giugno 2012
Maḥfūẓ published al-Faǧr al-kāḏib (The False Dawn) in 1989. In this short story collection strongly marked by symbolism and experimentalism, the Egyptian Nobel Laureate focuses on the relationship between time and change as well as on the duration of human life. On the other hand, he also deals with major [...]
Biografismo nell’autobiografismo di Maḥmūd al-Saʿdanī, maestro della satira egiziana
Articolo della rivista, Anno VII, numero 14, dicembre 2017
Celebrated all over the Arab world as the master of Egyptian satire, Maḥmūd al-Saʿdanī, alias “al-Walad al-Šaqī” (the Naughty Boy), was a journalist, writer, playwright and author of various radio and television programs. This walking encyclopedia published around twenty books, including several historical and biographical texts, as well as a [...]
