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Abdelfattah Kilito is an acclaimed Moroccan novelist, essayist, and critic. He has written several important works on classical Arabic literature, both in French and Arabic, many of which have been translated into numerous languages, including French, German, Spanish, Italian, and English. He is the recipient of many awards, including the French Academy Award in 1996.Mbarek Sryfi is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct assistant professor at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey. His translations have appeared in CELAAN, Metamorphoses, and World Literature Today.Eric Sellin is professor emeritus at Tulane University. He is the author of two books on Antonin Artaud and on early twentieth-century avant-garde movements.




8 Ebooks by Abdelfattah Kilito

Abdelfattah Kilito: Arabs and the Art of Storytelling
In Arabs and the Art of Storytelling, the eminent Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He …
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€32.99
Abdelfattah Kilito: Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilingualism are steeped in a tension between …
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€15.99
Abdelfattah Kilito: The Clash of Images
The Clash of Images is a sweet, Borgesian mix of bildungsroman memoir, family history, short-story collection, fable, and literary criticism. Written in a graceful and charming style, Kilito’s st …
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€5.99
Abdelfattah Kilito: The Tongue of Adam
In the beginning, there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, v …
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€5.99
al-Ḥarīrī: Impostures
One of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature …
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€19.99
Abdelfattah Kilito: The Tongue of Adam
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to as …
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€12.99
al-Ḥarīrī: Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī
Maqāmāt Abī Zayd al-Sarūjī is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of the celebrated work by al-Ḥarīrī, which is also available in English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as Impostures. …
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€43.99
Abdelfattah Kilito: La curiosidad prohibida
Fascinado desde niño por Las mil y una noches, el primer libro que leyó en la infancia (a escondidas o por error de algún adulto), el autor de este libro se enfrenta a su propia tradición literaria …
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€5.99