On Identity

ISBN-13: 9781860467295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 144 str.

Amin Maalouf

Opis

Maalouf's lucid enquiry into the precise meaning of identity, that which makes each of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual, explores how we define ourselves and what identity has meant and continues to mean in different cultures.

Recenzje

His observation of human nature in all its facets is wonderfully accurate David Robson Sunday Telegraph

O autorze

Amin Maalouf's fiction includes Leo the African, Rock of Tanios, which won the 1993 Prix Goncourt, Samarkand and Ports of Call. He is also the author of an acclaimed scholarly work, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, as well as the much admired essay, 'On Identity'.

Barbara Bray has twice won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize, as well as the French-American Foundation Prize, for her translations. These include The Lover by Marguerite Duras, The Concert by Ismail Kadare, and George Sand's letters in Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence.