Titre : | Kamal Jann |
Auteurs : | Dominique Eddé, Auteur |
Type de document : | texte imprimé |
Editeur : | Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2014 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-85742-164-7 |
Format : | 1 vol. (400 p.) / couv. ill. / 21 cm |
Note générale : | Winner english pen award |
Langues: | Anglais |
Index. décimale : | 800 (Littérature) |
Mots-clés: | roman |
Résumé : |
Much has happened in Syria and the Middle East since the eighties. But from Kamal Jann’s opening paragraphs we are aware that great brutality, deceit, and constant jockeying for power remain the warp and woof of the Syria, and the wider world, depicted in its pages. A vigorously conceived character who commands our attention despite the mercilessness of his behavior, Sayf Eddine fears he is now beginning to lose control over the country he has been prominent in controlling for decades. Sensing his loss of power, his wife poisons him, partly in an attempt to preserve her own life.
One of Sayf Eddine’s barbarities has been the murder of his brother and sister-in-law and the sexual molestation of Kamal, their son. He has, however, paid for his nephew’s elite education in the US, where Kamal now uneasily prospers as a Manhattan lawyer. A “Jann . . . consumed by his past” and by his ongoing membership in a still-prominent family, Kamal agonizes over his role and the “legacy” he does not know whether to “defy, preserve, or destroy.” His guilt-stricken cousin Wafa confronts a similar dilemma; her illegitimate son, taken away from her at birth, now contrives to enter her life. Wafa ties together the power politics of family and those of clashing nation-states and ethnic groups by wondering aloud if the “downfall of the Janns is the beginning of another downfall.” Overwhelmed by horror, anger, and disgust, Kamal himself lives up to his family name, which translates from Arabic as “to go mad,” by delivering a lengthy and offensive rant to his wealthy and influential friends, Arab and Western. |
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