Talismano

by Abdelwahab Meddeb and Professor Abdelwahab Meddeb

Book Overview

"Talismano" is a novelistic exploration of writing seen as a hallucinatory journey through half-remembered, half-imagined cities--in particular, the city of Tunis, both as it is now, and as it once was. Walking and writing, journey and journal, mirror one another to produce a calligraphic, magical work: a palimpsest of various languages and cultures, highlighting Abdelwahab Meddeb's beguiling mastery of both the Western and Islamic traditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564786293
• ISBN13: 9781564786296
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 7.9"