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245		4	_aThe Book of Sleep/ _cHaytham Al-Wardany
260			_aLondon; NY; Calcutta; _bSeagull Books; _c2020
300			_a162p; _c20x13cm
490			_aThe Arab List
520			_aFirst published in Arabic as Kitab Al Nawm by Haytham Al Wardany, by Al Karma Publishers, Cairo 2017. ------What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states—metaphorically called death’s shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence—be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aLiterature- Prose _99172
651			_aEgypt _aNajd _aAlgeria _99166
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