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Item Details
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THE OBLIVION SEEKERS
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| By: |
Isabelle Eberhardt, P. Bowles (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0872860825 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780872860827 |
| Publisher: |
CITY LIGHTS BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2001 |
| Pages: |
88 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Synopsis: |
Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman? adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult."Not long before her death Isabelle Eberhardt wrote: "No one ever lived more from day to day or was more dependent upon chance. It is the inescapable chain of events that has brought me to this point, rather than I who have caused these things to happen." Her life seems haphazard, at the mercy of caprice, but her writings prove otherwise. She did not make decisions; she was impelled to take action. Her nature combined an extraordinary singlness of purpose and an equally powerful nostalgia for the unattainable." -Paul Bowles, preface."One of the strangest human documents that a woman has given the world." -Cecily Mackworth, I Came Out of FranceIsabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively throughout North Africa. She wrote of her travels in numerous books and French newspapers, including Nouvelles Algeriennes [Algerian News] (1905), Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906), and Les journaliers [The Day Laborers] (1922).Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: Love with a Few Hairs (novel), The Lemon (novel), The Boy Who Set Fire (stories), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (stories), The Beach Cafe & Look & Move On (autobiography), and The Big Mirror (novella). |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
City Lights Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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