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Memory for forgetfulness : August, Beirut, 1982

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  • Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd
    Contributor: Muhawi, Ibrahim
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    2013
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    One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day).

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    Basic concepts: Cinema and the Theory of Intertextuality
    Narrative's way: D.W. Griffith: Repressing the Source: D.W. Griffith and Browning
    Intertextuality and the Evolution of Cinematic Language: Griffith and the Poetic Tradition
    Beyond narrative: avant-garde cinema
    Cinematic Language as Quotation: Cendrars and Léger
    Intertext against Intertext: Buñuel and Dali's Un Chien Andalou
    Theorists who practiced: The Hero as an "Intertextual Body": Iurii Tynianov's Lieutenant Kizhe
    The Invisible Text as a Universal Equivalent: Sergei Eisenstein
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    12 years ago
    James
    I understand Darwish is one of the most prominent poets in the Arab world. And this, Memory for Forgetfulness, is prose poetry written in the form of a narrative covering one August day during the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. For purposes of hi…
    28 readers found this review helpful
    5 years ago
    Edita
    And as we move away, we can see ourselves turning into memories. We are these memories. As of this moment, we’ll remember each other as we’ll remember a distant world disappearing into a blueness more blue than it used to be. We’ll part in the pitch …
    11 readers found this review helpful
    12 years ago
    Scott
    This book was unforgettable (an intentional play on the title). I learned of the author through a shoddy VHS documentary about his life and was compelled to buy a copy of this. I actually wanted to get any book by him and this was the only thing I co…
    10 readers found this review helpful
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    Genre:
    Poetry, Biographies and autobiographies, History and geography, War and military
    Subject(s): Darwīsh, Maḥmūd | Autobiographies | Lebanon--Beirut | Personal narratives
    Original Publisher: Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press
    Language(s): English