Этель Аднан – лучшие книги

Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected outwards and mirrored back through ruminations on climate catastrophe, California wildfires, the on-going war in Syria, planned missions to Mars, and the view of the sea from Adnan’s window in Brittany in a poignant often painful interplay between the interior and the cosmic.

An arresting new translation of poems, originally written in French, by one of our greatest philosopher poets.

On October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In Time, we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.

Book Description A mosaic of lyrical vignettes, at once deeply personal and political, set against the turbulent backdrop of Arab/Western relations. Adnan writes, "Contrary to what is usually believed, it is not general ideas and grandiose

In ihrem poetischen Essay beschreibt die K?nstlerin, Dichterin und Essayistin Etel Adnan (*1925) verschiedene Formen der Liebe: die Liebe zu einer Idee, zu Gott, zu Dingen und zur Natur. Doch haben wir uns heute weit entfernt von einer sich selbst verzehrenden Liebe zu etwas H?herem, wie sie etwa Nietzsche in den Wahnsinn oder den islamischen Mystiker al-Hallaj in den M?rtyrertod trieb. Die Liebe zur Natur, die Adnan anhand eigener Erfahrungen schildert, scheint sogar der Verachtung gewichen zu sein – wie sonst lie?e sich die ?kologische Katastrophe erkl?ren, auf die wir zusteuern? Der Preis daf?r, diese aufzuhalten, w?re zu gro?, denn er w?re mit der radikalen Ver?nderung unserer Lebensweise verbunden – ?hnlich wie die konventionellste Form der Liebe, die zwischen zwei Menschen, die eine Intensit?t mit sich bringt, die nur wenige bereit sind zu ertragen.