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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
112
Utgivningsdatum
2014-05-30
Förlag
Syracuse University Press
Översättare
Roger Allen
Originalspråk
Arabic
Medarbetare
Allen, Editor Roger (University Of Pennsylvania) (red.)
Illustrationer
32 colour illustrations
Dimensioner
216 x 134 x 15 mm
Vikt
327 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780815610342

A Sleepless Eye

Aphorisms from the Sahara

av Ibrahim Al-Koni, Roger Allen
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2014-05-30
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The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earths elements. Al-Koni, an award-winning and critically acclaimed Arabic writer, reflects on this fragile environment and the increasing threats to its existence in A Sleepless Eye, a collection of the poets desert wisdom. He highlights the relationships between humans and Libyas natural features, grouping them by theme: nature, desert, water, sea, wind, rock, trees, and fire. Each theme contains a set of aphorisms that deliver thoughtful perspectives on what it means to coexist with an evolving planet. This volume is the result of the authors collaboration with the celebrated French nature photographer, Alain Sbe, and English translator Allen. The product is a body of work that calls upon readers to question their relationship with the earth through meditative ideas and photos, familiarising English readers with the fundamental philosophies of environmental stewardship that transcend all boundaries.
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A breathtaking distillation of the poetic and philosophic sensibility that makes al-Koni's work as a whole so original.--Shawkat M. Toorawa, Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University These aphorisms are the unadorned poetry of deep meditation, the distilled wisdom of long communion with desert, sea, and wind. Here is the Gospel of environmentalism according to al-Koni, rendered in chaste English that diminishes none of its luster.--Wail S. Hassan, Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Ibrahim al-Koni was born in Libya in 1948. A Tuareg who writes in Arabic, he spent his childhood in the desert and learned to read and write Arabic when he was twelve. He studied comparative literature at the Gorky Institute in Moscow, Russia. He is the author of over eighty volumes, including novels, stories, and aphorisms, and has been translated into thirty-five languages. Roger Allen is Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics, School of Arts and Sciences, professor of Arabic and comparative literature, and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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