Bilingual edition : Franch / Arabic
A walk through the Louvre like a waking dream at the gates of Europe and Asia by one of the greatest living Arab poets.
Considered "the man who renewed Arabic poetry" ( The New Yorker ), Adonis is one of the great modernizers of the Arabic language and poetry as a...
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Bilingual edition : Franch / Arabic
A walk through the Louvre like a waking dream at the gates of Europe and Asia by one of the greatest living Arab poets.
Considered "the man who renewed Arabic poetry" ( The New Yorker ), Adonis is one of the great modernizers of the Arabic language and poetry as a whole. He maintains an ambiguous relationship with the very concept of museum, as he seeks to carry art into the future. For the first time, he devotes a work entirely to one of them: The Louvre, space of the alphabet to come , poem in seven scenes, published here in a bilingual edition.
Wandering through the department of oriental antiquities at the Louvre, Adonis combines the works with his own knowledge and imagination to offer in this text an extraordinary dive into Mesopotamia, into the heart of the legendary cities of Babylon and Palmyra.
The poet gives voice to the myths, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, and brings back to the present the historical figures of Alexander the Great and Nefertiti. His wide, deep gaze permanently connects the most ancient past with our present - which is also that of the work of art - giving birth to so many visions.
Bilingual French / Arabic
144 pages
Éditions Seghers / Louvre éditions
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