Bücher von Abdellatif Laabi

Abdellatif Laâbi is an internationally renowned poet and activist famous for his support of Arab liberation and unity. He has received numerous prestigious accolades, and his work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, and English. His poetry has been central to post-colonial Moroccan literature and important to the development of Arabic literature generally. In the 1970s Laâbi served an eight-year prison sentence in Morocco for "crimes of opinion" against the Moroccan state after he helped found Souffles-Anfas (Breaths), a central journal in the growing movement of post-colonial Arab literature during the 1960s. Since the 1980s Laâbi has lived in France in forced exile. Laâbi's poems in The Symphony of Resistance address themes of human rights, the history of oppression in colonized countries, globalization, freedom, love, the Arab world after liberation, and the role of the poet. Given events pertaining to and resulting from the Arab Spring, this collection will appeal to readers interested in contemporary poetry, both in academia (students and scholars of North African literature, Middle East Studies, Francophone Studies, etc.) and beyond. The timely questions also have special resonance in the current American context, especially as concerns diversity and social justice.

Cette incursion "barbare" dans le théâtre.  J'en avais envie depuis près de vingt ans. Le théâtre, tout au long de 'cette période, est resté pour moi comme un premier amour frustré de Jeunesse .  ... Je suis le premier à être surpris par ce texte. Ce que je sais, c'est que je le porte en moi depuis très longtemps, comme besoin d'une gargantuesque dérision, comme volonté de faire enfin feu sur mes "sur-moi", comme fascination par les contradictions insolubles qui sont le ressort de ce que l'on appelle l'âme humaine, la cohabitation étrange en nous des pulsions destructrices participant du principe de mort et des pulsions folles allant dans le sens de la réalisation de la vie et de l'humain.