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Papa Sartre (Hardcover)
Ali Bader; Translated by Aida Bamia
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After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home
to Iraq to launch an existentialist movement akin to that of his
hero. Convinced that it falls upon him to introduce his country's
intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels especially qualified by
his physical resemblance to the philosopher (except for the crossed
eyes) and by his marriage to Germaine, who he claims is the great
man's cousin. Meanwhile, his wealth and family prestige guarantee
him an idle life spent in drinking, debauchery, and frequenting a
well-known nightclub. But is his suicide an act of philosophical
despair, or a reaction to his friend's affair with Germaine? A
biographer chosen by his presumed friends narrates the story of a
somewhat bewildered young man who like other members of his
generation was searching for a meaning to his life. This parody of
the abuses and extravagances of pseudo-philosophers in the Baghdad
of the sixties throws into relief the Iraqi intellectual and
cultural life of the time and the reversal of fortune of some of
Iraq's wealthy and powerful families.
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