Comforting Myths

Concerning the Political in Art

By: Rabih Alameddine

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Hardcover | 22 October 2024

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96 Pages

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20.3 x 12.7 x 1.3

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A timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literature's leading lights

In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of politics and art head-on, questioning the very premise of dividing these two pillars of culture into an either/or proposition. He reveals how a political dimension enlarges a work of art rather than making it less beautiful or reducing it to a polemic, as we are so often and carelessly taught. But he also ponders what makes art political to begin with: how essential is the artist's conscious political intent, and what does the reader or viewer contribute to the work's political capability or significance? In exploring these questions, Alameddine engages intensely with his role as an immigrant and a gay author writing inside a globally dominant, often oblivious culture, and invokes the work of numerous writers, from Tayeb Salih and Aleksandar Hemon to Teju Cole and Salman Rushdie, who also struggle to be heard as something more than an "other." The book features throughout Alameddine's brilliantly relatable voice-shrewd, humorous, challenging, and as honest about his own limitations as he is about his passions.

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A provocative treatise by one of our most important literary writers on the role of politics in literature. Like most of his work, it is both wise and funny."" - Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

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