Books by Etel Adnan (5)
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Arabische Apokalypse by Etel Adnan DE
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Seit sie denkt und fühlt, ist die libanesisch-amerikanische Dichterin und Malerin Etel Adnan leidenschaftliche Zeitgenossin. Immer wieder antworten ihr Schreiben und Malen auf Ereignisse der Zeitgeschichte, auf Kriege, Verwüstungen, Massaker, zumal im arabischen Raum. Eine dieser Antworten, vielleicht Adnans wichtigste, ist »Arabische Apokalypse«, ein Zyklus von 59 Gedichten. Er beschwört mit lakonischem Aberwitz, in den staunendes Registrieren, Leid und Verzweiflung sich kleiden, das Bild eines Kosmos, der aus den Fugen ist. (Dort, wo die Sprache ins Stocken ger&aum... continue
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Shifting the Silence by Etel Adnan EN
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A heart-rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing deathShifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea... continue
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Sitt Marie Rose : A Novel by Etel Adnan EN
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Translated from the French by Georgina Kleege. SITT MARIE ROSE, an SPD bestseller, is the story of a woman abducted by militiamen during the civil war in Lebanon. Already a classic of war literature, it won the France-Pays Arabes award in Paris and has been translated into six languages. Fiction.
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