Conversations With My Father, Adonis - The French List
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Artist meets writer; young woman meets older man; daughter meets father. All these encounters are played out in the arresting conversations between the artist Ninar Esper (b. 1971) and the father she hardly knew, the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis (b. 1930). Esber passionately challenges Adonis on subjects ranging from fundamentalism to animal rights, from feminism to aesthetics; Adonis responds with amusement and judicious wisdom, not concealing the contradictions of a patriarchal humanist libertarian. On Esber's side, the poignancy of growing up without a father becomes a drama with Oedipal overtones.
This intensely personal two-hander is at the same time representative of many contemporary displacements. Comparing their experiences of war, exile and cultural rootlessness, two individuals differently marked by Middle Eastern history seek a common ground in Paris. An intimate, uncensored, ultimately unresolved search for communication and forgiveness.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781905422906 |
Publisher: | Seagull Books |
Imprint: | Seagull Books |
Pub date: | 01 Oct 2008 |
DEWEY: | 892.716 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 222 |
Weight: | 408g |
Height: | 200mm |
Width: | 162mm |
Spine width: | 24mm |