Diaries of Wajih Ghali .. Egyptian writer from the swinging sixties (two parts)

The translation of "The diaries of Wajih Gali, an Egyptian writer from the passionate sixties," by researcher Mai Hawas into Arabic (Al-Kutub Khan - Cairo) signed by Mohamed Dakhakhni, in two volumes, the first covering the period from 1964 to 1966, and the second covering between 1966 and 1968. And these diaries of the owner of the novel "Beer at the Billiard Club," were originally in the possession of Diana Athiel, who Gali committed suicide in her apartment and left her a will to publish those diaries, but she only wrote (and published) memoirs about her relationship with him titled "After the Funeral" in 1986. It appears that the copy Athiel had of those diaries was lost, but in early 2014, a replica was found, preserved by Deborah Starr from Cornell University, after she photographed it during a visit to London about ten years prior to that date. The manuscript was copied and edited with great precision, and included two interviews conducted by Deborah Starr, the first with Diana Athiel, highlighting how she got to know Gali and why she wrote her memoirs about their relationship after his death, and the second with Samir Busta, Wajih Gali's cousin, shedding light on his family life and childhood in Egypt. On the road to madness Wajih Gali's diaries begin on May 24, 1964 (Riedt, Germany), "On the road to madness, since this is what I seem to be heading toward, perhaps it would be better to record my diaries (...) even if only to cling to a shred of sanity." Then he proceeds until the end with certainty that he will die by suicide, without doubt... reviewing his emotional, financial, and psychological crises, and his failure to write a second novel, "I cannot live without love, and when I love and am completely and fully in love, I become boring..." May 30, 1964. On the same date, he also wrote that going to a psychiatrist would be nothing but a joke. I know deep down that I am a potential suicide." p. 38. Wajih Gali Diaries (two parts)