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Description for Talismano
Paperback. Translator(s): Kuntz, Jane. Series: Tunisian Literature Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Series
Tunisian Literature Series
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564786296
SKU
V9781564786296
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About Abdelwahab Meddeb
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. Jane Kuntz has translated Everyday Life and The Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre, Hotel ... Read more
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