|
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government
|
Not currently available
The Book of Sleep (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
You Save: R96
(19%)
|
|
|
The Book of Sleep (Hardcover)
Series: The Arab List
 (sign in to rate)
List price R515
Loot Price R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
You Save R96 (19%)
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in
contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most
unproductive of human states—metaphorically called death’s
shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence—be envisioned
as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens
to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the
spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed
Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book
of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing
on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection,
political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work
presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and
recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall
into its gravity. “My concern was not to create a literary
product in the conventional sense, but to try and use literature as
a methodology for thinking,” El Wardany explains. In this volume,
sleep shapes sentences and distorts conventions. Its protean
instability throws out memoir and memory, dreams and hallucinatory
reverie, Sufi fables and capitalist parables, in the quest to shape
a question. The Book of Sleep is a generous and generative attempt
to reimagine possibility and hope in a world of stifling dualities
and constrictions.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
