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Memory and Creation / Lebanon

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By Saadi Nikro

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Madness Cannot Be Thought

"Mahmoud Darwish's "Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982" can be read as a story of language discovering itself in the midst of the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. This involves an exploration of language as a "transgressive experience" of writing and reading, whereby language is creatively and critically experienced as a dense texture of conflictual impulses and developing residues."