Exile and Helplessness: (L’Exil et le d�sarroi) - Couverture souple

Far�s, Nabile

9781935084181: Exile and Helplessness: (L’Exil et le d�sarroi)

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ISBN 10 : 1935084186 ISBN 13 : 9781935084181

Editeur : Di�logos, 2012

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This translation of Exile and Helplessness marks the introduction to the English-speaking world of Nabile Far�s’ great trilogy, La D�couverte du nouveau monde (The Discovery of the New World). An experimental work set in the time just after Algeria’s war with France, Exile and Helplessness probes issues of identity—race, gender, nationality—in the wake of European colonialism. The intensity and self-awareness of this work—in relation to both language and the existential urgency of its content—brings Nabile Far�s’ writing closer to the white heat of poetry than to the narrative leisure of the novel. This is writing as enactment and not as mere representation. The immense pleasure in reading Far�s’ work—a pleasure that shines through in Peter Thompson’s excellent translation—comes from the nomadicity of his language, the thinking and doing that happens at any given moment all over the place, if we let it. Let it happen to you; you’ll be the richer for it. —Pierre Joris, Editor of The University of California Book of North African Literature. “You have to learn to read between the lines of the sky, and of the tree, in the gaps that overflow with light and possibility.” Peter Thompson’s nimble and evocative translation brings to English readers the oracular intensity of Nabile Far�s’ “multiple kind of speech.” Exile and Helplessness is a risky dialectic of prose and poetry, distance and rootedness, words and body, the politics of living and dying, of the female and the male, of liberation, anguish and ecstasy. —Adam J. Sorkin, translator of Ioan Flora’s Medea and Her War Machines

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Nabile Far�s was born in Collo, Algeria, in 1940. An activist and ethnologue, he has been a voice against colonialism in such poetics works as Chant d’Akli and Escuchando tu historia (translated as Hearing Your Story, UNO Press, 2007). A Passenger From The West (UNO Press, 2010), was the first of his innovative novels to be translated. Novels also include the trilogy, La D�couverte du nouveau monde. Far�s fought against the French in the Algerian war for independence and later moved to Paris, where he currently lives. In 1994, he was awarded the Kateb Yacine prize for lifetime achievement. Peter Thompson teaches modern languages and literature at Roger Williams University. Recent translations include L�on-Paul Fargue’s Po�mes (2003), V�ronique Tadjo’s first book of poetry, Red Earth, (2006), and Nabile Far�s’s Hearing Your Story (2008) and A Passenger From The West (2010), along with Nassira Azzouz’s The Gates of The Sun (2010). His translation of Tchicaya u Tam’si’s The Belly—the first full-length translation of Tchicaya’s poetry—appears in 2013. He has edited two anthologies of francophone literature, and edits Ezra: An Online Journal of Translation.

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