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DescriptionAn intimate account of Edward Sa ds life and thought Edward Said is a personal, literary portrait of one of the twentieth centurys most influential scholars, written by his close friend and confidante. Here, Lebanese novelist and essayist Dominique Edd offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most famous texts, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Edd weaves together accounts of the genesis and content of Saids work, his intellectual development, and her own reflections and personal recollections of their friendship, which began in 1979 and lasted until Saids death in 2003. In this intimate and searching portrait of Saids thought, Edd continues to maintain their dialogue despite his death, trying to make peace with the loss of a collaborator with whom she still wants to talk and disagree. Bringing together personal reflection and theoretical innovation, reflective mourning and immediate argument, Edd has written a testament to a great intellectual passion. Both specialists of Saids work and newcomers will find much to learn in this rich portrait of one of the twentieth centurys most important intellectuals.About the AuthorDominique Eddé was born in Lebanon and is the author of numerous novels, including Kite (2012), Kamal Jann (2014) as well as The Crime of Jean Genet (2016) and a book of interviews with the psychoanalyst André Green.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
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