Rasheed ad-Daʿif
Rashid ad-Daʿif ( Arabic رشيد الضعيف, DMG Rašīd aḍ-Ḍaʿīf , often al-Daif ; * 1945 in Ehden ) is one of the most famous Arabic-speaking novelists today. His work, written in Arabic, has been translated into numerous languages.
Life
Raschid ad-Daʿif was born in 1945 in Ehden near Zgharta in northern Lebanon into a Christian Maronite family. He studied Arabic at the Lebanese University in Beirut. In 1974 he received his doctorate in Paris (Sorbonne III). From 1972 to 1974 he taught Arabic as a foreign language at the University of Paris III. 1974 to 2008 was Professor of Arabic and Literature at the Lebanese University of Beirut . In the 1999 summer semester, he took on a visiting professorship in Toulouse.
The book The Impregnation of the World. Speech against speech. Beirut-Berlin by ad-Daʿif and Joachim Helfer caused quite a stir in autumn 2006. Under the title Audat al-almani ila ruschdihi (“The return of the German to reason” or “How the German came back to reason”) ad-Daʿif had previously published a report on Helfer's private life in Beirut without his knowledge or consent. The form of the German edition, in which ad-Daʿif's text is interrupted by inserted comments and corrections by Helpers, met with protests from ad-Daʿif, who saw the integrity of his work as a threat.
According to Angelika Neuwirth, “ad-Daʿif can be considered one of the most convincing chroniclers of the massive process of upheaval”. His novels deal with the contradictions of Lebanese society, which is torn between tradition and modernity, in a humorous way. The hypocritical prudish that rules the love life of the Lebanese today is led into the absurd. At the same time, a differentiated reflection on the social tensions and the suffering caused by the civil war develops. Ad-Da'ifs novels can be assigned to the direction of the Nouveau Roman . They dispense with psychological characterization and a referential framework.
A selection of his poetic work was published in German in 2008 under the title “I will call things by their name”.
Works
- Fais voir tes jambes, Leïla!
- Qu'elle aille au diable, Meryl Streep!
- Learning English (in French)
- Dear Mr. Kawabata . Lenos, September 1998.
- Cher Monsieur Kawabata
- Dear Mister Kawabata
- Passage au crépuscule
- Passage to dusk
- L'été au tranchant de l'épée
- L'insolence du serpent
- عودة الألماني إلى رشده("The return of the German to reason") online, German
- The swelling of the world. Speech against speech. Beirut-Berlin (together with Joachim Helfer ). Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 2006. ISBN 3-518-12477-3 .
- I'll call things by their names , Lisan Verlag, May 2008.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daʿif, Rashid ad- |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lebanese author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ehden |