L'Auteur et ses doubles. Essai sur la culture arabe classique

by Abdelfattah Kilito

French

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2001

About the author

See also عبد الفتاح كيليطو

Abdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also written articles for magazines like Poétique and Studia Islamica. Some of the awards Kilito has won are the Great Moroccan Award (1989), the Atlas Award (1996), the French Academy Award (le prix du Rayonnement de la langue française) (1996) and Sultan Al Owais Prize for Criticism and Literature Studies (2006).

Reviews

[Paul Kerschen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hyperbolic author functions: plagiarism (the tangent) versus forgery (the arctangent). The authentic pre-Islamic ode cannot be nailed down. More tricks from al-Jāḥiẓ, who steals his material, has his material stolen, pretends to have stolen his material just to throw people off.

[Jared Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

The dead are peaceful. It is the living who are restive, who demand the dead’s testimony.

[dathomira]

useful for historical basis of hadith and poetry and their interaction in classical arabic literary culture.

[Oumaima Hassoun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Et si l'écriture était une légende? Et si la philologie n'était pas une science ?
Et si Taha Hussein avait raison quand il a dit "ليس هناك شعر جاهلي؟"