Traces (eBook)

A Memoir

Gamal Al-Ghitani (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
246 Seiten
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
9781617979750 (ISBN)

Infos

One of Egypt's greatest contemporary writers reflects on life and love

This haunting memoir, written ten years before Ghitani’s death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. These fragments are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. Vivid passages capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as chance conversations at points of transit, in cafés, on elegant streets, and with unnamed paramours. These memories, and Ghitani’s musings on memory’s own finitude and mutability, make Traces both a memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.4.2020
• Übersetzer: Nader K. Uthman
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Akhbar al-adab • Cairo before Nassar • Egyptian novelists • Egyptian State Prize for the Novel • Egyptian writers • Egypt’s Nile Award in Literature • how we remember • literary essays • literary memoir • literature in translation • memoirs of Cairo • Middle East essays • Middle East literature • Pyramid Texts • the Egyptian State Prize for Literature • the French Chevalier de l’Order des Arts et des Lettres • The Mahfouz Dialogs • Zayni Barakat
• ISBN-13: 9781617979750 / 9781617979750