A “Hollywood” Fancy
In an “Interview” with Michael Bacos on March 24, 2002, the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury was asked an interesting question: since Lebanese writers no longer have the benefit of a major event, the civil war, to inspire them, what are the issues they are writing about in Post-war Lebanon? Khoury’s a...
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4802 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php http://alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/article/view/450 |
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| Summary: | In an “Interview” with Michael Bacos on March 24, 2002, the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury was asked an interesting question: since Lebanese writers no longer have the benefit of a major event, the civil war, to inspire them, what are the issues they are writing about in Post-war Lebanon? Khoury’s answer to this was that Lebanese writers are writing novels and are trying, through them, to express their lives1, a rather general answer to a question that, in my opinion, needs more in-depth study |
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