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Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
Mahmoud Darwish
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Description for Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
Paperback. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? This title offers an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. Translator(s): Muhawi, Ibrahim. Series: Literature of the Middle East. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). "Memory for Forgetfulness" is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time ... Read more
One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). "Memory for Forgetfulness" is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
190
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Literature of the Middle East
Condition
New
Weight
274g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520273047
SKU
V9780520273047
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About Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) was a Palestinian poet and writer, regarded as the Palestinian national poet. He published over thirty books of poetry during his life. Ibrahim Muhawi is coauthor and translator of Speak Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales (California, 1988) and Mahmoud Darwish's Journal of an Ordinary Grief (Archipelago Books, 2010), for which he won the PEN ... Read more
Reviews for Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
"...a scathing, lyrical, darkly funny, electrifying memoir of his last terrible month in Beirut under Israeli siege. Darwish eschews the heroic mode and instead criticizes everyone, including the Palestinian resistance movement and its Arab allies, just as he exposes his own weaknesses."
New York Review of Books
"...a classic of modern Arabic letters and one of the great ... Read more
New York Review of Books
"...a classic of modern Arabic letters and one of the great ... Read more