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By Tarek Abi Samra, L’Orient Littéraire, September 2023
The romantic character is generally only one of many elements used by the novelist to create a story. Other elements include plot, descriptions, point of view, narrative techniques, etc. However, the reader is spontaneously inclined to ignore all this and to see in a novel only the story of this or that character. A certain effort is in fact necessary to free oneself from this spontaneous reading and realize that the fictional character – even if he is both the protagonist and the …
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An interview with Elias Khoury published in L’Humanité, November 9, 2023
The great Lebanese writer Elias Khoury just published Stella Maris, a vast epic on Palestine. He shares his thoughts on hot news of an Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In Stella Maris (Actes Sud), Elias Khoury explores identity, memory, voluntary amnesia, betrayal and the relationships between the Shoah and the Nakba. Currently editor-in-chief of the Arabic edition of the Review Palestinian studies, Elias Khoury, Lebanese citizen (born in Beirut in 1948), decided, in the 1960s, to become a member of Fatah, then the largest …