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Farewell, Babylon
In "Farewell, Babylon," Naim Kattan takes readers into the heart of exotic mid-19th-century Baghdad's then-teeming Jewish community. Jews had lived in Iraq for 25 centuries, long before the time of Christ or Muhammad, but anti-Semitism and nationalism were on the rise. In this beautifully written memoir, a young boy comes of age and describes his discoveries -- of work, literature, patriotism, the joys of lazy Sundays swimming in the Tigris. He also talks eloquently of his greatest discovery: women and love. This is a story of roots and exile, of thirst for life and life's experiences. However, more than that it is a tribute to a lost world, an ancient Eastern city in which Iraq's Kurds, Bedouins, Sunnis, Shiites, Chaldeans, Catholics, and Jews all lived together in a rough, rewarding sort of harmony.
A.M. Klein
Lawyer, activist, and poet A.M Klein dreamed of a country where all might live according to their beliefs and religion. His poetry earned him the Governor Generals Award in 1948.
Naïm Kattan. L'écrivain du passage
L'écrivain de l'époque serait-il un passeur de cultures, comme on le serait des rivières du monde? S'il en est un qui mérite ce titre, c'est bien le romancier et essayiste Naïm Kattan. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur d'Adieu Babylone se raconte comme jamais auparavant, faisant le tour de sa vie et de sa pensée. Il y rappelle autant les cultures juive et arabe qui l'ont fait, que sa renaissance par les française et québécoise. Ainsi se trace un itinéraire qui va d'Irak en France et au Canada, marqué par autant d'essais que de romans ou nouvelles. Sans oublier ces si nombreuses rencontres avec de grandes figures contemporaines parmi lesquelles, Breton, Gide, Malraux, Trudeau et Lévesque. La seconde partie de cet ouvrage réunit une quinzaine d'auteurs. Venus de pays et d'horizons multiples, ils ont voulu rendre hommage à l'homme de Bagdad, de Paris et de Montréal, à l'écrivain qui défend le nomadisme de l'écriture et de la culture. Ils disent au Québécois et Canadien que, par son rayonnement mondial, il est devenu un écrivain exemplaire de la francophonie contemporaine.
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Farewell, Babylon
From the melting pot that was Iraqi society comes a tale, recounted by a grand old man of Canadian letters, of growing up as a Jewish boy in Baghdad in the 1940s. Naim Kattan was born into an intellectual Jewish family in Baghdad in 1928. He, his brother, and his friend Nessim were the only Jews in a group of young men who met every evening in a cafe to talk passionately about creating a national Iraqi literature in their newly independent country. They had good reason, for although the Jewish community in Iraq dated back 2500 years, and Jews were among the best Arabic scholars in the country, they were never considered equals by the Muslim majority. In 1941, after British forces defeated th...
Naïm Kattan
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Reality and Theatre
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Naïm Kattan
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Le choix de Naïm Kattan dans l'oeuvre de Naïm Kattan
L'auteur a cherché à donner une idée de l'ensemble de son oeuvre qui aborde quatre genres : essais - romans, nouvelles - pièces de théâtre - textes critiques. Il a choisi des extraits de huit de ses livres (il en a publié quatorze).
