Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories Tapa blanda - 2005
de Jabra Ibrahim Jabra; Issa J. Boulatta (Translator)
Descripción de la solapa
This book continues the personal story of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra (1920a 1994) that began with The First Well: A Bethlehem Boyhood. Jabra was one of the Middle Easta s leading novelists, poets, critics, painters, and translators (he was the first to translate The Sound and the Fury into Arabic), and is the writer who is given credit for modernizing the Arabic novel. This book not only helps us understand Jabra as a writer and human being but also his times in posta World War II Baghdad when Iraq was enjoying an unprecedented period of creativity in literature and the arts. As a bright and inquisitive young man he became friends with the archeologist Max Mallowan and his wife, who, he later learned, was Agatha Christie (she wrote The Mousetrap during this period, in a little mud brick room). Jabraa s intellectual autobiography quickly developed as he traveled to Jerusalem, Oxford, and Harvard University, where he studied with I. A. Richards and Archibald MacLeish. A number of different teaching posts in Baghdad provided him opportunities to become friends with many leading poets, such as Buland al-Haydari and Tawfiq Sayigh; historians like George Antonius; and the renowned translators of Arabic literature Desmond Stewart and Denys Johnson-Davies. But this book is not only about matters of the mind, it is about matters of the heart as well. Jabra beautifully describes his lengthy love affair with a young Muslim woman, the beautiful Lamica, whom he first met near Princessesa Street and whom he eventually married. He recounts all of the difficulties they had to surmount, and the pleasures to be had. This is the last book that Jabra published during his lifetime. Not only is Jabraa s life an outstanding example of the circumstancesa and fatea of the Palestinian in the twentieth century, but it also provides countless interesting insights into the cultural life of the Middle East in general and its modes of interconnection with the West."
Detalles
- Título Princesses' Street: Baghdad Memories
- Autor Jabra Ibrahim Jabra; Issa J. Boulatta (Translator)
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 185
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, AR
- Fecha de publicación 2005-10
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9781557288028 / 155728802X
- Peso 0.53 libras (0.24 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.52 x 5.08 x 0.51 pulgadas (21.64 x 12.90 x 1.30 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Authors, Arab - 20th century, Jabra, Jabra Ibrahim
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2005021969
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Multicultural Review, 10/01/2006, Page 66
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2006, Page 1
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