Rabih Alameddine buch An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine ist ein libanesischer Maler und in englischer Sprache schreibender Schriftsteller.
Rabih Alameddine ist der Sohn libanesischer Drusen und wuchs in Kuwait, im Libanon und in England auf. Nach seinem Studium an der UCLA und der USF war er als Ingenieur tätig, ehe er Maler und Schriftsteller wurde. Er lebt in San Francisco und Beirut. Wikipedia
Rabih Alameddine buch An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: An Unnecessary Woman
“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”
Quelle: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Rabih Alameddine buch Koolaids: The Art of War
Quelle: Koolaids: The Art of War
Rabih Alameddine buch An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”
Rabih Alameddine buch An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: An Unnecessary Woman
Rabih Alameddine buch An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: An Unnecessary Woman
“The eye always fills in the imperfections.”
Quelle: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies.”
Rabih Alameddine buch An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: An Unnecessary Woman
Quelle: On challenging stereotypes in “Researcher Nadia Barhoum interviews Rabih Alameddine” https://belonging.berkeley.edu/alameddine (Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley)
“I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.”
Quelle: On the unpredictability of how a written work will be received in “Rabih Alameddine: 'Right now in the west, Arabs are the other'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/09/rabih-alameddine-interview-an-unnecessary-woman-national-book-award in The Guardian (2015 Jan 9)
“If you sit with your memories, you might as well become a plant.”
Quelle: On the dilemma faced by his protagonist in The Angel of History in “Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/09/rabih-alameddine-the-angel-of-history in The Guardian (2016 Oct 9)