Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (Words Without Borders)

by Reza Aslan (Editor)

Hardcover, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

808.8

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Publication

W. W. Norton & Company (2010), Edition: First Edition, 688 pages

Description

Spans a century of poems, short stories, novels, memoirs, and essays by Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Azra Abbas, Ghulam Abbas, Abu Salma, Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id Asbar), Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Pegah Ahmadi, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Nazik al-Malāʼikah, Mozaffar al-Nawwab, Melih Cevdet Anday, ʻArrār (Mustafa Wahbi al-Tal), Manouchehr Atashi, Reza Baraheni, Faraj Bayraqdar, Simin Behbahani, Alireza Behnam, Sadeq Chubak, Ismat Chughtai, Zayd Mutee' Dammaj, Simin Daneshvar, Mahmoud Darwish, Parvin E'tesami, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Forugh Farrokhzad, Altaf Fatima, Khalil Gibran, Hoiushang Golshiri, Melisa Gürpinar, Yahya Haqqi, Haydar Haydar, Sadegh Hedayat, Nâzim Hikmet, Abdullah Hussein, Intizaar Hussein, Yusif Idris, Muhammad Iqbal, Ali Sardar Jafri, Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, Ghassan Kanafani, Orhan Veli Kanik, Refik Halit Karay, Cemil Kavukçu, Yaşar Kemal, Naguib Mahfouz, ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Mahmud, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manto, Miraji (Muḥammad S̲ānāʼullāh Dār), Zakaria Mohammad, Nader Naderpour, Kishwar Naheed, Aziz Nesin, Orhan Pamuk, Zoya Pirzad, Hamid Reza Rahimi, N.M. Rashed, Fahmida Riaz, Oktay Rifat, Zeeshan Sahil, Ahmad Shamloo, Cemal Süreya, Zakariyya Tami, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. Goli Taraghi, Akhtar ul-Iman, Saadi Youssef, Can Yücel, Nima Yushij, and Haifa Zangana.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member AliceKathleen
I have not finished this book yet. I'm reading it for a book club I've been in for years. So far I am underwhelmed. In some ways the book seems to be suited for a survey course which might perhaps have supplementary material to really open up the world of Arabic literature and in another way I
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think it is lacking perhaps in the translations which don't seem to make the literature very engaging. The selections from Palestinian writers seem rather obvious in that the writers feel oppressed by Israel. Does this give us insight beyond what we read in a newspaper? To me that is what literature should do. I am taking the advice of Mr. Aslan and reading cover to cover rather than just dipping in here and there. I certainly hope it gets better.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2010 (English collection)

Physical description

688 p.; 6.7 inches

ISBN

0393065855 / 9780393065855

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