Name: Speaking Through the Night: Diary of a Lockdown, March-April 2020
SKU: 56152807
Price: 46.09 NZD
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Author: Wajdi Mouawad
ISBN: 9781772015393

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Speaking Through the Night: Diary of a Lockdown, March-April 2020

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Physical Book

Author

Wajdi Mouawad

Publisher

Talonbooks,

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781772015393

Speaking Through the Night: Diary of a Lockdown, March-April 2020

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Synopsis "Speaking Through the Night: Diary of a Lockdown, March-April 2020"

Isolating in Nogent-sur-Marne, Wajdi Mouawad embarks upon a spectacular inner voyage, travelling from his own microcosm to the eye of the Big Bang. We follow him from Peter Handke's office to his father's retirement home, from the banks of the Saint Lawrence to Montréal, Greece, Greenland, and the Lebanon of his childhood. Through Kafka and Star Wars, by way of French phonetics and the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, he explores the razor's edge of madness, conjures a dream shared by all humanity, and probes the bestiality of our everyday lives.Mouawad's plays, novels, and essays speak to us all, confronting our ghosts, addressing the obscure and the impenetrable, which dissipate as they are put into words. The musings in Speaking through the Night, born out of solitude, confront the mysteries of the universe with supple introspection.

Wajdi Mouawad

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The author, director, and actor Wajdi Mouawad is one of the most relevant French-speaking playwrights and writers in the current scene. He has been translated into more than twenty languages and performed on all five continents. Born in 1968 in Lebanon, where the civil war forced his family to seek refuge in Beirut, and later in France and Quebec. A graduate of the National School of Dramatic Art of Canada, he currently directs the National Theater of the Colline in Paris. At the Avignon festival, he developed his famous tetralogy The Blood of Promises, consisting of the plays Litoral, Fires, Forests, and Heavens. His body of work, committed to denouncing major contemporary atrocities, has earned him the Grand Prize for Theater from the French Academy. Many of his works have been presented on the Catalan stage by the company La Perla 29. The most recent is Tots ocells (All Birds) (2024), a tragedy directed by Oriol Broggi, about the weight of family legacies on the painful border between love and hate of prejudices. His novel Ánima (Destino, 2014; Edicions del Periscopi, 2014) was awarded various prizes, including the Llibreter prize.

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