The Tongue of Adam
A playful and erudite look at the origins of languageIn the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. These days, no one bothers to ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito's The Tongue of Adam, a delightful series of lectures. With a Borgesian flair for riddles, stories, and subtle scholarly distinctions, Kilito presents an assortment of discussions related to Adam's tongue, including translation, comparative religion, and lexic…
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Weitere Autoren: Creswell, Robyn (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2494-9
- EAN: 9780811224949
- Produktnummer: 34248480
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'592 KB
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Abdelfattah Kilito was born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1945. He has received the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the French Academy Award (1996), and the Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).
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