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Elias Khoury's City Gates is a fable, an exploration of themes rather than a clear-cut story. It largely eschews the principles of modern fiction such as plot and character for concepts that adhere closely to Arabic methods of storytelling. City Gates, while a very small novel – novella, even – is dense in its examination of the difficulty of a place steeped in history coming to terms with its troubled modern times.
Elias Khoury is one of the most distinguished writers and intellectuals in the contemporary Arab world. His contributions to Arab culture are substantial and enormously diverse, including novels, literary criticism, and cultural critique. His distinction as a writer and critic in the Arab world, already recognized in France where many of his works have been published in French translation, is currently finding recognition in the United States as well. Gates of the City, Khoury's first novel, mixes the genres of the epic and the lyric to meditate on the pains and ravages of civil war. Khoury also provocatively draws on the traditions and themes of Arabic storytelling as articulated in A Thousand and One Nights. A man wanders the labyrinths of the city of Beirut (unidentified in the novel) out of the past and through the present into an uncertain future, a trajectory much like the city itself, the space of contested cultural claims as yet unresolved. The man must find his way through the city's passages, out of his own past, through the present, and into a still anticipated future. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)892.736Literature Literature of other languages Middle Eastern languages Arabic (Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan) Arabic fiction 1945–2000Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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I found City Gates to be an easy and pleasurable book to read, but I didn't understand the message that Khoury was trying to convey. ( )