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The Book of Sleep - Couverture souple

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El Wardany, Haytham

 
9780857429537: The Book of Sleep
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0857429531 ISBN 13 : 9780857429537
Editeur : Seagull Books, 2021

Synopsis

Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature.

What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states—metaphorically called death’s shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence—be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be?

Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity.

“My concern was not to create a literary product in the conventional sense, but to try and use literature as a methodology for thinking,” El Wardany explains. In this volume, sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions. Its protean instability throws out memoir and memory, dreams and hallucinatory reverie, Sufi fables and capitalist parables, in the quest to shape a question. The Book of Sleep is a generous and generative attempt to reimagine possibility and hope in a world of stifling dualities and constrictions.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English based in Barcelona. He has translated several novels and prose works into English, including Haytham El Wardany's The Book of Sleep, Mohamed Kheir's Slipping, Iman Mersal's Traces of Enayat, and Ghassan Zaqtan's Strangers in Light Coats.

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Éditeur
Seagull Books
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0857429531
ISBN 13 
9780857429537
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
171
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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