The Oblivion Seekers

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<p>Stories and journal notes by an extraordinary young woman—adventurer and traveler, Arabic scholar, Sufi mystic and adept of the Djillala cult.</p><p>"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.</p><p>"One of the strangest human documents that a woman has given the world."—Cecily Mackworth, <em>I Came Out of France</em></p><p>Isabelle 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 <em>Nouvelles Algériennes</em> [Algerian News] (1905), <em>Dans l'Ombre Chaude de l'Islam</em> [In the Hot Shade of Islam] (1906) and <em>Les journaliers</em> [The Day Laborers] (1922).</p><p>Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: <em>Love with a Few Hairs</em> (novel), <em>The Lemon</em> (novel), <em>The Boy Who Set Fire</em> (stories), <em>Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins</em> (stories), <em>The Beach Café &amp; Look &amp; Move On</em> (autobiography) and <em>The Big Mirror</em> (novella).</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780872860827

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

206 x 137 x 6 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

Verlag / Hersteller

City Lights Books