Conversations with My Father, Adonis (French List) - Hardcover

Esber, Ninar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905422903 ISBN 13: 9781905422906

Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Artist meets writer; young woman meets older man; daughter meets father.  All these encounters are played out in the arresting conversations between the artist Ninar Esper (b. 1971) and the father she hardly knew, the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (b. 1930).  Esber passionately challenges Adonis on subjects ranging from fundamentalism to animal rights, from feminism to aesthetics; Adonis responds with amusement and judicious wisdom, not concealing the contradictions of a patriarchal humanist libertarian.  On Esber's side, the poignancy of growing up without a father becomes a drama with Oedipal overtones.

 

This intensely personal two-hander is at the same time representative of many contemporary displacements.  Comparing their experiences of war, exile and cultural rootlessness, two individuals differently marked by Middle Eastern history seek a common ground in Paris.  An intimate, uncensored, ultimately unresolved search for communication and forgiveness.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ninar Esber is a performance artist and a writer. She lives and works in Paris.

Lorna Scott Fox is a journalist, critic and translator presently living in London.

Ninar Esber is a performance artist and a writer. She lives and works in Paris.

Lorna Scott Fox is a journalist, critic and translator presently living in London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1905422903
• ISBN 13: 9781905422906
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
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