A moving, memoiristic short-story collection by a venerated Moroccan writer about growing up during a time of cultural upheaval. â€œReading Kilito has always been, for me,

The Clash of Images
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A moving, memoiristic short-story collection by a venerated Moroccan writer about growing up during a time of cultural upheaval.
â€œReading Kilito has always been, for me, an adventure. Kilito dares the reader to travel with him, riding over the frontiers between fiction and reality, between literary criticism and storytelling. He is a writer with his own personal library; a reader who invents an imaginary present out of fragments drawn from the past. The Clash of Images is a marvelous book, a mysterious alchemy of tale and teller. This student of Roland Barthes proves the French masterâ€™s point: every critic could be a novelist in disguise.â€â€•Elias Khoury, author of Gate of the Sun

Abdelfattah Kilitoâ€™s The Clash of Images is an enchanting collection of linked stories set in a coastal city of memories. It is a time when the old Arabic world of texts and oral traditions is making way for something newâ€•the modern era of the image, the comic book, photo IDs, and the cinema. Together, the stories form a kaleidoscopic memoir of growing up in two worlds, a brilliant mixture of cultural and family history. Here are tales of first kisses and first reads, Tintin and the Prophet Muhammad, fantasies of the Wild West, the inferno of the bathhouse, and the lost paradises of childhood. The Clash of Images is a magic lantern of a book, a celebration of storytelling and all its pleasures that is beautifully translated by Robyn Creswell, who won a PEN Translation Fund Award for this collection.
Country USA
Brand New Directions
Manufacturer New Directions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2010-09-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780811218863

Country	USA
Brand	New Directions
Manufacturer	New Directions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2010-09-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780811218863

The Clash of Images

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