
Talismano
Abdelwahab Meddeb(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 16. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
265 pages
978-1-56478-629-6 (ISBN)
Description
"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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Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-629-6 (9781564786296)
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Abdelwahab Meddeb
Talismano
E-Book
05/2011
1st Edition
Columbia University Press
€14.49
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