Discover the telling and reading a book by its ...! It's always nice to see the creations of young students, and even more so when these students are bright and well prepared. What is striking is precisely the critical spirit that emerges during the presentation of a book that you read and where we get involved.
This happens in a classroom of many of the Ca 'Foscari one morning in February, not so sunny. Two students rise from their seats and make sure we explain how to dream and to understand others through literature. In this case, the Arabic literature. Many times we wonder if the speaker of this "other" has never tried to know, beyond borders and stereotypes. Have you ever tried to think like him, to live in his shoes, to dream with your eyes, savor the flavors of distant lands. As stated in a English student, the East is not just the exotic and belly dancing, as well as Sushi or silk, but also people who compose it. Human beings who live real lives, and that the recount. Stories that can be simply those of a "Mario", a "Jean" or "Young." But bringing on themselves beautiful inlaid pieces of culture, civilization and life. And what does it matter how different from ours, if we remain the same feelings, dreams and passions. All this proves a fan who is close to the language, literature or simply to music of the least advertised and / or affected by business publishers or record companies. While, on the contrary, their works are worthy of attention and a level of detailed analysis.
books this plenary session, spoke of women, but not categorized or stamping the books as works of women. Are no roads and travel diaries on-board the two leading writers in the end to give and receive the answers they sought. The first is "Dunyazad" Telmissany of May which will be released only in Italy in September 2010, but which are available in French, English and English. It tells the story of a death, loss and pain. Why am I so hard join words into a single concept. Why the sense of this Death is a path that leads to the rebirth of life, a real pain treatment as a therapy. The greatest tragedy for a woman is the loss of the creature she is carrying, on his own ... of herself! The whole book is a dialogue of the private character who tries to overcome this loss, which affects the whole family. But it is not an autobiography, or at least the author does not define this. Like all these kinds of books are anonymous and fanciful name, such as this excerpt from "A Thousand and One Nights", which is the sister of Dunyazad Sherazad and also exactly what triggers the interest of the bloody king to the girl's bedtime stories . How anonymous
also starred in the "Test of honey", in Arabic burhs al'asal, Salwa al-Neimi. Published by Feltrinelli with an attractive and naked on the cover photo was sponsored with much success, given the sales as an erotic book Arabic. In reality it is simply a story a bit 'more spicy and speaking of classical Arabic literature that speaks of sexuality and eros. The first-person protagonist tells his stories sex with several men, as the Traveller, the Director, Editor, The Far and the Thinker, but who remain outside of history. Indeed the passion of this story is the librarian for the pleasure, that is the honey that flows, and is the result of this pleasure, enabled human beings! What emerges is that there is sexuality in the Arab world or the Muslim woman is allowed to try it, but the profound difference between two opposite poles such as the public and private dimensions. In a world where we can look at the contradictions arise only contrasts, that sexuality is part of the private, intimate, something that should not be shown to anyone but a person remains in itself.
As the title, which is based on a ruling of the mystic Ibn 'Arabi, "The proof of the sweetness of honey is the honey itself," encourages them to try. But not to exhibit. They would do well to ask many, majority of those who look with fear of this world if we infuse the private sphere should not really be maintained and preserved for themselves. And as for myself? Well what to say, after doing some 'zapping in the various Italian reality I think we should Porcel some questions! Tiziana
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