Abdelfattah Kilito
Author of Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
About the Author
Abdelfattah Kilito is a professor in the Department of French at Muhammad V University in Rabat, Morocco.
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Works by Abdelfattah Kilito
Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity (Middle East Literature In Translation) (2008) 7 copies
Abū al-ʻAlāʼ al-Maʻarrī, aw, Matāhāt al-qawl (al-Maʻrifah al-adabīyah) (Arabic Edition) (2000) 3 copies
لسان آدم 2 copies
L'oeil et l'aiguille: Essai sur Les mille et une nuits (Textes a l'appui) (French Edition) (1992) 1 copy
La muralla 2004 1 copy
La mujer de R 2004 1 copy
بحبر خفي 1 copy
حصان نيتشه 1 copy
L'auteur et ses doubles: Essai sur la culture arabe classique (Collection Poetique) (French Edition) (1985) 1 copy
بحبر خفي 1 copy
لسان آدم 1 copy
حصان نيتشه 1 copy
al-Adab wa-al-ghirāba: dirāsāt fī l-Adab al-'Arabī = Littérature et métaphysique : essais sur 1 copy
Duo 2004 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Kilito, Abdelfattah
- Other names
- Kīlīṭū, ʻAbd-al-Fattāḥ
- Birthdate
- 1945-04-10
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Morocco
- Places of residence
- Rabat, Morocco (birth)
- Education
- Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, Rabat
Sorbonne - Occupations
- Professor (Mohamed V University, Rabat)
- Awards and honors
- Al Owais Award (2007)
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Reviews
A very enjoyable little essay (lectures turned essay) on, well, Adam's tongue: what language did he speak? Was he a poet? Did he write the poem attributed to him? And what do the answers people give to these questions tell us about them? If you have any interest at all in the history of Islam, Arabic literature, or really just literature, this is highly recommended: you get Adam in Genesis and in the Quran, you get his sons in both, you get Babel, then commentaries on all of this, and commentaries on the commentaries, and Kilito picks the right phrase from everything (it helps that he seems to have read everything; the book ends with a meditation on Nathalie Sarraute and the dilemmas of using a non-'world' language--a phrase I use with the greatest irony.… (more)
A Borgesian meditation on Adam and the elegy he wrote after Cain slew Abel. There are passages on the Tower of Babel, which touch on the mythological origins of language, the question of which is the first language, and what it means to be multilingual. Too short to explore these topics to a satisfactory degree, the text is evocative rather than explicative and permeated with examples from classical Arabic literature.
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- Works
- 29
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 126
- Popularity
- #159,216
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 4
- ISBNs
- 31
- Languages
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العمل الثاني الذي أقرأه لكيليطو، مدفوعاً بالفضول والحماسة لاكتشاف كتبه، التي تصفها مراجعات القراء بالتميز والتفرّد!
وقد رجعت منها حائراً خليّ الوفاض، لا أجد فكرة عامة واضحة تجتمع فيها مقالاته أو فصوله
نعم، إن المؤلف بارع في تشريح القول وقائله، وفي نقد النصوص الأدبية والتفتيش بين سطورها
ولا شك أن كتابته لذيذة ممتعة لا تُمل
لكن أين الفائدة منها سوى ذلك؟ أين الفكرة الواضحة المستهدفة؟ لست أدري
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