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Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish: Used
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2013-05-13
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9780520273047
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520273044
ISBN-13
9780520273047
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150607766
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Memory for Forgetfulness : August, Beirut 1982
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
General, Middle East / General
Genre
Poetry, History
Book Series
Literature of the Middle East Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"...a classic of modern Arabic letters and one of the great war memoirs of the twentieth century. Published four years after the defeat in Lebanon, it is the culmination of Darwish's first twenty years as a poet, a summing up of his views on literature and politics. . . . Darwish writes as an engaged intellectual, but also as a civilian. Most of the book is spent in quotidian activities: waiting for a taxi, quarreling in cafés, searching for a place to eat lunch. This street-level view allows Darwish to convey the singular helplessness of non-combatants caught up in modern "asymmetric" warfare."
Dewey Decimal
956.92044
Synopsis
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 of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoon's foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish's work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.
LC Classification Number
DS87.53.D36513 2013
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