Traces - Gamal Al-Ghitani

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Auteur(s) : Gamal Al-Ghitani

Editeur : American University In Cairo Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 246

Expédition : 340

Dimensions : 22.6 x 15.2 x 2.0

ISBN : 9789774169533

Résumé :

One of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love


This haunting memoir, written ten years before al-Ghitani's death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself.

These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as chance conversations at points of transit, in caf?s, on elegant streets, and with unnamed paramours.

These memories, and al-Ghitani's musings on memory's own finitude and mutability, make Traces both a memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals.

Biographie:

Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, literary editor, political commentator, and public intellectual. He published over a dozen novels, including Zayni Barakat (AUC Press, 2004) and The Zafarani Files (AUC Press, 2009), as well as several collections of short stories. He was also founding editor of the literary magazine, Akhbar al-adab (1993-2011). He was awarded the Egyptian State Prize for the Novel (1980), the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France (1987), and the Egyptian State Prize for Literature (2007). In 2015, he received the Nile Award in Literature, Egypt's highest literary honor.

Nader K. Uthman is associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Sommaire:

Gamal al-Ghitani (1945-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, literary editor, political commentator, and public intellectual. He published over a dozen novels, including Zayni Barakat (AUC Press, 2004) and The Zafarani Files (AUC Press, 2009), as well as several collections of short stories. He was also founding editor of the literary magazine, Akhbar al-adab (1993-2011). He was awarded the Egyptian State Prize for the Novel (1980), the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France (1987), and the Egyptian State Prize for Literature (2007). In 2015, he received the Nile Award in Literature, Egypt's highest literary honor.

Nader K. Uthman is associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.