Rachid al-Daif
Forfatter af Dear Mr. Kawabata
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- Fødselsdato
- 1945
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Lebanon
- Bopæl
- Zgharta, Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon
Paris, France - Uddannelse
- Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon
Université de Paris III (Doctorat in Lettres Modernes, 1974)
Université de Paris V (D.E.A. in Linguistics, 1978) - Erhverv
- professor
- Organisationer
- Lebanese Communist Party (1979)
- Kort biografi
- Rashid al-Daif was born in 1942 in Zhgarta, a Maronite stronghold in northern Lebanon. He received his PhD in literature after studying in France. He was a member of the Lebanese Communist Party but left it in 1979. He lived in West Beirut during the civil war, oftentimes under a false identity in order to protect himself from sectarian violence. Passage to Dusk, al-Daif’s second novel, was published in 1986. He is the author of three volumes of poetry and several novels, including Dear Mr. Kawabata (1995), This Side of Innocence (1997), and Learning English (1998), which have been translated into English.
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After the first page - where he learns by chance in a cafe that his father has been killed back home in a 'blood feud' - the whole story takes place in his head.
Rachid ponders over why no one's informed him of the death. Is his life in danger from the feud? Do they expect him to avenge his father? And then he meanders back to recollections and suppositions about his dysfunctional family: his resentful mother (might she have done it?); her best friend who later married into the family (might she have divulged his mother's confidences?); his father's adultery; his uncles...
It took a determined effort to finish it. No real conclusion. Not recommended.… (mere)