Abdelwahab Meddeb (1946-2014) was a North African intellectual and author of several fiction and nonfiction works primarily in French. Among many other works, he is author of the novels Talismano and Phantasia. Claudia Esposito is associate professor of French at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is author of The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb. Laura Reeck is an independent translator and scholar. She is the author of Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond and coeditor of Post-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France.
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"The translation is masterful in its accuracy and precision. And it is elegant. It preserves the uniqueness of Meddeb's rhythms in its prose." -Ronnie Scharfman, author of Engagement and the Language of the Subject in the Poetry of Aime Cesaire