Epic of the Epic

Ideas & Philosophy

Epic of the Epic

ملحمة الملحمة

By Architect Imad Darouich

An essay on the epic as a way of bearing witness, written by an author who says he lived inside it. It sets the epic against the story, the novel and the religious text, and follows it through war, exile, the besieged city and time, asking why we still need it today.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Ideas & Philosophy

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Imad Darouich: From Architect to Creator of Epics
An architect who never left architecture: he carried it into writing, where the chapter became a room and the book a city.
The Epic of the Last Memory
Crowds remember only the last note of a song, but ninety minutes cannot erase twenty years of brilliance.
A Ship Searching for God: An Ibn Fadlan Poem
A television series about a dragon-prowed ship leads Imad to Ibn Fadlan and to the victims that history forgets.

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