Rabih Alameddine:
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Rabih Alameddine: Citations en anglais
“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”
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An Unnecessary Woman
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
“Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies.”
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An Unnecessary Woman
Source: An Unnecessary Woman
Source: 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.”
Source: 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.”
Source: 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)