Love in Two Languages (Emergent Literatures) - Softcover

Khatibi, Abdelkebir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816617805 ISBN 13: 9780816617807

Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Khatibi, Abdelkebir

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

From Publishers Weekly:

Readers may wish that the author had heeded the suggestion he himself voices in his first paragraph: "The story should stop here, the book close upon itself." Alas, Khatibi, a North African making his English-language debut, plunges instead into a self-indulgent "meditation" (read: no plot and no drama) about the nature of language in general and the peculiar rootlessness of the bilingual in particular--and it has all been said before, more elegantly and more fruitfully. Khatibi succumbs to a fatal fondness for the rhetorical question ("What was it that he wanted? That she should be this abyss between him and himself, in their common language?"), which renders his academic phrasing ("I name myself in two languages in unnaming myself; I unname myself in telling my story") less ludic than ludicrous.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0816617805
• ISBN 13: 9780816617807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118