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Memory for Forgetfulness - August, Beirut, 1982 (Paperback, First Edition, with a New Fore ed.)
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Memory for Forgetfulness - August, Beirut, 1982 (Paperback, First Edition, with a New Fore ed.)
Series: Literature of the Middle East
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One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli
invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for
this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the
sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets
scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on
August 6th (Hiroshima Day). "Memory for Forgetfulness" is an
extended reflection on the invasion and its political and
historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and
collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role
of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing
(memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions,
Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and
resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with
rage. Ibrahim Muhawi's translation beautifully renders Darwish's
testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to
Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoon's foreword,
written expressly for this edition, sets Darwish's work in the
context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.
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