Ihab Hassan

hassanphotoIhab Hassan has received two Guggenheim and three Fulbright Fellowships and is the author of fifteen books of essays and memoirs, plus 30 short stories published in such journals as New England Review, Antioch Review, AGNI, Shenandoah and others. He has just completed a novelette and stories with Egyptian backgrounds, The Changeling and Other Stories.

The Tiger

At first everyone thought it was a joke that might have appealed to a Berliner with gallows humor or some latter-day Kafka, lacking the Gallic touch. Surrealism, after all, had been long defunct, and the antics of Pataphysics had always … Continue reading