Arabian Blues: Preface by René Depestre - Softcover

Khan, Amin

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798517397751

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

"Between melancholy and ironic distance, metaphor and lucidity, tenderness and beauty, Amin Khan inscribes his doubts and his solitude in the universal measures and harmonics of the Afro-American blues. Transcending style and “race”, vision of the world and locality of identity, complaint and tempo, his strong sense of the self and the others mixes the Arab form of the spleen with a to be blue sprung from the imaginary of the deltas of the Mississippi." René Depestre

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About the Author

Amin Khan was born on October 18, 1956 in Algiers. He studied economics, political science and philosophy in Algiers, Paris and Oxford. During his professional career, he has been a teacher, diplomat and international civil servant.
He is the author of numerous publications. For the poetry book "Arabian blues", prefaced by René Depestre, Mld, 2012, he received the first prize of poetry Nikos Gatsos and the prize François Coppée of the Académie française.
Amin Khan directed the collective work "Présence de Tahar Djaout, počte", Barzakh, 2013, as well as five volumes of essays, "Nous autres, Éléments pour un manifeste de l'Algérie heureuse", Chihab, between 2016 and 2019.
In poetry, he also published: "Colporteur", Sned, 1980, "Les mains de Fatma", Sned, 1982, "Vision du retour de Khadija ŕ l'opium", Isma, 1989, "Archipel Cobalt" ", with a preface by Dominique Sorrente, Mld, 2010," Rhummel ", Apic, 2014, " Počmes d'aoűt ", with drawings by Arezki Larbi, and "Jours amers", with drawings by Hamid Tibouchi, elKalima, 2017.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798517397751
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Khene Mahdi
• Number of pages: 80
• Editor: Echeverri Sofia Arango