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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Badr, ʿAlī (1964-....)
Titre(s) : Papa Sartre [Texte imprimé] / Ali Bader ; translated by Aida Bamia
Traduction de : Bābā Sartr
Traduction de : بابا سارتر
Publication : Cairo : American university in Cairo press, copyright 2009
Description matérielle : 178 p. ; 21 cm
Collection : Modern Arabic literature
Lien à la collection : Modern Arabic literature (Le Caire)
Note(s) : In English; translated from the Arabic.
"After a failed study mission in France, Abd al-Rahman returns home to Iraq to launch
an existentialist movement akin to that of his hero. Convinced that it falls upon
him to introduce his country's intellectuals to Sartre's thought, he feels especially
qualified by his physical resemblance to the philosopher (except for the crossed eyes)
and by his marriage to Germaine, who he claims is the great man's cousin. Meanwhile,
his wealth and family prestige guarantee him an idle life spent in drinking, debauchery,
and frequenting a well-known nightclub. But is his suicide an act of philosophical
despair, or a reaction to his friend's affair with Germaine? A biographer chosen by
his presumed friends narrates the story of a somewhat bewildered young man who-like
other members of his generation-was searching for a meaning to his life. This parody
of the abuses and extravagances of pseudo-philosophers in the Baghdad of the sixties
throws into relief the Iraqi intellectual and cultural life of the time and the reversal
of fortune of some of Iraq's wealthy and powerful families."--Publisher description
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Bamia, Aida Adib. Traducteur
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Baba Sartre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789774162893 (hbk.). - ISBN 9774162897 (hbk.). - ISBN 9789774162985. - ISBN
9774162986 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42514550q
Notice n° :
FRBNF42514550
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
