AKHENATEN(ISBN=9780385499095) 英文原版
From Publishers Weekly Nobel-winningEgyptian novelist Mahfouz (The Cairo Trilogy) appropriates, towonderful effect, the craft of the biographer in these 14 elegantfictional testimonies on the brief but dazzling reign of the"heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten and his enigmatic queen, Nefertiti.First published in Arabic in 1985, newly translated into English,the narrative comprises many subjective versions of the earlyreligious zealot Akhenaten's rule. Twenty years after the end ofhis reign, witnesses, royalty and relatives recount their storiesto a young nobleman's son, Meriamun, who professes a passion forunearthing the truth. The particulars of Akhenaten's reign areunquestioned: the son of the great pharaoh Amenhotep III and QueenTiye, Akhenaten is a sickly, irreverent and spiritually inclinedyoung man who ascends the throne when his brother dies. Inspired byreligious visions, Akhenaten scorns Egypt's traditional pantheismand declares his devotion to the One and Only God. When his fervorleads him to decree that h
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