The Perception of Meaning by Hisham Bustani

The Perception of Meaning by Hisham Bustani

This award-winning collection of seventy-eight pieces of flash fiction presents an intense and powerful vision of today’s world seen through the eyes of an alienated and sardonic author. The Perception of Meaning reads like an alternative history to our world—a collage of small nightmares brought to life by a canon of unlikely historical figures, including Mark Zuckerberg, the lead singer of Megadeth, Stanley Kubrick, the Korean activist Lee Kyoung Hae, and the Mayan poet Humberto Akabal, among others. A dazzling exemplar of contemporary experimental Arabic literature, The Perception of Meaning deftly captures a historical moment in which Arab societies are increasingly questioning the status quo and rebelling against it. Bustani’s stories speak powerfully to the present and look to the future with a wary eye.

Hisham Bustani is a Jordanian writer and activist. He has three published collections of short fiction: Of Love and Death, The Monotonous Chaos of Existence, and The Perception of Meaning. English translations of his stories have appeared in the Saint Ann’s Review, the Literary Review, and World Literature Today.

Thoraya El-Rayyes, a Palestinian Canadian translator, lives in Amman, Jordan. Her translations have appeared in numerous journals, including Banipal, Open Letters Monthly, and World Literature Today, among others.

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ISBN 13	9780815610595
ISBN 10	0815610599
Titel	The Perception of Meaning
Autor	Hisham Bustani
Serie	Middle East Literature In Translation
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Syracuse University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-11-30
Seitenanzahl	248
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