جدلية التناص / Intertextual Dialectics

Name: جدلية التناص / Intertextual Dialectics
Author: الغيطاني, جمال, Al-Ghitany, Gamal

İsim	جدلية التناص / Intertextual Dialectics
Yazar	الغيطاني, جمال, Al-Ghitany, Gamal
Tür	Kitap
Dil	Arapça
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	ISSN: 1110-8673
Kayıt Numarası	cdi_jstor_primary_10_2307_521824
Lokasyon	JSTOR Arts and Sciences III
Notlar	Gamal al-Ghitany born in 1945 in Upper Egypt, is a prolific and brilliant novelist. He is known for his creative use of intertextuality before the term was coined. In his responses to questions by Alif, al-Ghitany reveals episodes from his personal experience with texts as well as elements of his poetic vision which throw a new light on the phenomenon of intertextuality. The following is a translation of fragments from al-Ghitany's spontaneous and moving discourse. • I can easily remember the first book I read.. It was a translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.. I still recall entire lines from it. • My reading developed spontaneously into two directions: translated world classics on one hand, and Arabic classics on the other. • At the age of fifteen I became fascinated by the novels of Najib Mahfuz whose titles were drawn from my Cairene neighborhoods. • One of the works that influenced me at a young age was Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. I remember borrowing the Arabic translation by Mustafa Safwan from Dar Al-Kutub. I could not afford a copy at the price of L. E. 1.50. So I copied it in toto. That's why I can still recall entire pages from the book. • I read, furthermore, philosophical, political and historical works. I found Pharaonic history very distant, but Islamic history and especially the Age of the Mamelukes is still alive. I used to live in an area where the names of the streets and quarters continue to carry those of medieval times.. My interest revolves around the transformations of a particular place. After the defeat of the 1967 war, I rediscovered Ibn Ayas who lived in a comparable period in which the Ottomans defeated the Egyptian army. This historian expressed patriotic sentiments and genuine grief comparable to what I felt in the black days of 1967. • I was able to go beyond the hegemony of the classical Novel and the Nouveau Roman.. I can say now that I am oriented towards new modes of expression inspired by Arabic heritage. • I don't work in a vacuum. I work with models drawn from Arabic narration latent in poetry, the Sufi tradition, historical texts or folk life. • I try to learn from the conventions of the Novel, not by imitating them or abiding by them, but by going beyond them, via my own tradition and experience. • For me the subject matter defines the form. In my Book of Epiphanies, the subject is death, time and amnesia; that's why I veered towards the Sufi tradition.
Telif Hakkı	Copyright 1984 Department of English and Comparative Literature. The American University in Cairo/ ﺣﻘﻮﻕ ﺍﻟﻨﺸﺮ ﻣﺤﻔﻮﻇﺔ ﻟﻘﺴﻢ ﺍﻷﺩﺏ ﺍﻹﻧﺠﻠﻴﺰﻱ ﻭﺍﻟﻤﻘﺎﺭﻥ٠ ﺍﻟﺠﺎﻣﻌﺔ ﺍﻷﻣﺮﻳﻜﻴﺔ ﺑﺎﻟﻘﺎﻫﺮﺓ٬ ١٩٨٤
Görüntüle	Alif (Cairo, Egypt), 1984-04 (4), p.71-82

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جدلية التناص / Intertextual Dialectics

Yazar الغيطاني, جمال, Al-Ghitany, Gamal

Tür Kitap

Dil Arapça

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Danimarka Kraliyet Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası ISSN: 1110-8673

Kayıt Numarası cdi_jstor_primary_10_2307_521824

Lokasyon JSTOR Arts and Sciences III

Notlar Gamal al-Ghitany born in 1945 in Upper Egypt, is a prolific and brilliant novelist. He is known for his creative use of intertextuality before the term was coined. In his responses to questions by Alif, al-Ghitany reveals episodes from his personal experience with texts as well as elements of his poetic vision which throw a new light on the phenomenon of intertextuality. The following is a translation of fragments from al-Ghitany's spontaneous and moving discourse. • I can easily remember the first book I read.. It was a translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.. I still recall entire lines from it. • My reading developed spontaneously into two directions: translated world classics on one hand, and Arabic classics on the other. • At the age of fifteen I became fascinated by the novels of Najib Mahfuz whose titles were drawn from my Cairene neighborhoods. • One of the works that influenced me at a young age was Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. I remember borrowing the Arabic translation by Mustafa Safwan from Dar Al-Kutub. I could not afford a copy at the price of L. E. 1.50. So I copied it in toto. That's why I can still recall entire pages from the book. • I read, furthermore, philosophical, political and historical works. I found Pharaonic history very distant, but Islamic history and especially the Age of the Mamelukes is still alive. I used to live in an area where the names of the streets and quarters continue to carry those of medieval times.. My interest revolves around the transformations of a particular place. After the defeat of the 1967 war, I rediscovered Ibn Ayas who lived in a comparable period in which the Ottomans defeated the Egyptian army. This historian expressed patriotic sentiments and genuine grief comparable to what I felt in the black days of 1967. • I was able to go beyond the hegemony of the classical Novel and the Nouveau Roman.. I can say now that I am oriented towards new modes of expression inspired by Arabic heritage. • I don't work in a vacuum. I work with models drawn from Arabic narration latent in poetry, the Sufi tradition, historical texts or folk life. • I try to learn from the conventions of the Novel, not by imitating them or abiding by them, but by going beyond them, via my own tradition and experience. • For me the subject matter defines the form. In my Book of Epiphanies, the subject is death, time and amnesia; that's why I veered towards the Sufi tradition.

Görüntüle Alif (Cairo, Egypt), 1984-04 (4), p.71-82