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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 (original Arabic title: ذاكرة للنسيان) 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.
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Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut 1982
2013, University of California Press
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Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (Literature of the Middle East)
March 20, 1995, University of California Press
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Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (Literature of the Middle East)
March 20, 1995, University of California Press
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