Frasi di Rabih Alameddine

Rabih Alameddine è uno scrittore e pittore libanese naturalizzato statunitense.

✵ 1959

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Rabih Alameddine: Frasi in inglese

“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”

Origine: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”

Rabih Alameddine libro An Unnecessary Woman

Origine: An Unnecessary Woman

“The eye always fills in the imperfections.”

Origine: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

“Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies.”

Rabih Alameddine libro An Unnecessary Woman

Origine: An Unnecessary Woman

“I don't sit down to write something politically or to challenge stereotypes. Being who I am, almost everything I do will be political, almost everything I do will be a challenge to those stereotypes…”

Origine: On challenging stereotypes in “Researcher Nadia Barhoum interviews Rabih Alameddine” https://belonging.berkeley.edu/alameddine (Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley)

“I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.”

Origine: On the unpredictability of how a written work will be received in “Rabih Alameddine: 'Right now in the west, Arabs are the other'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/09/rabih-alameddine-interview-an-unnecessary-woman-national-book-award in The Guardian (2015 Jan 9)

“If you sit with your memories, you might as well become a plant.”

Origine: On the dilemma faced by his protagonist in The Angel of History in “Rabih Alameddine: 'I think we lose something once we get accepted'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/09/rabih-alameddine-the-angel-of-history in The Guardian (2016 Oct 9)