Abdelwahab Meddeb

Talismano (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Kuntz, Jane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Talismano is a novelistic exploration of writing seen as a hallucinatory journey through half-remembered, half-imagined cities-in particular, the city of Tunis, both as it is now, and as it once was. Walking and writing, journey and journal, mirror one another to produce a calligraphic, magical work: a palimpsest of various languages and cultures, highlighting Abdelwahab Meddeb's beguiling mastery of both the Western and Islamic traditions. Meddeb's journey is first and foremost a sensual one, almost decadent, where the narrator luxuriates in the Tunis of his memories and intercuts these impressions with recollections of other cities at other times, reviving the mythical figures of Arab-Islamic legend that have faded from memory in a rapidly westernizing North Africa. A fever dream situated on the knife-edge between competing cultures, Talismano is a testament to the power of language to evoke, and subdue, experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781564786524
• Artikelnr.: 41069661

Autorenporträt

Jane Kuntz has translated Everyday Life and The Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre, Hotel Crystal by Olivier Rolin, Pigeon Post by Dumitru Tsepeneag, and Hoppla! 1 2 3 and Making a Novel by Ge?rard Gavarry, all of which are available from Dalkey Archive Press.