The critical case of a man called K / Aziz Mohammed ; translated by Humphrey Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muḥammad, ʻAzīz, 1987- author.

Contributor:

Davies, Humphrey T. (Humphrey Taman), translator.

Standardized Title:

Ḥālah al-ḥarijah lil-madʻūw K. English

حالة الحرجة للمدعو ك. طنگله http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020070432

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Autonomy (Psychology).

Determination (Personality trait).

Blue collar workers.

Leukemia--Patients.

Leukemia--Patients--Fiction.

Leukemia.

Blue collar workers--Fiction.

Diaries--Fiction.

Diaries.

Determination (Personality trait)--Fiction.

Autonomy (Psychology)--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Physical Description:

260 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Hoopoe, 2021.

Summary:

"K is an introverted man in his mid-twenties, working for a big, faceless petrochemical company. After reading Kafka, K decides to write his own diary, but he is constantly frustrated by his lack of experiences, his concerns about his privacy, and the demands of his dull job and family. When he receives the news that he has leukemia, he finds himself torn between a sense of devastation and a revelation that he has finally found a way out of his writing predicament, as he begins to rebel against the social and economic constrains that threaten to overwhelm him. Through Aziz Mohammed's measured but forceful writing, this is an absorbing, sensitive, and at times darkly humorous telling of K's experience of illness, his contemplation of death, and his determination to maintain his independence of decision through it all."--Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the Arabic.

Other Format:

Online version: Mohammed, Aziz, 1987- The critical case of a man called K.

ISBN:

9781649030757

1649030754

OCLC:

1176318459

Publisher Number:

99987453739