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Translation

“Literature in a time of contagion” by Elias Khoury

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Pages 119-135 | Published online: 20 May 2024
 

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Notes

1 Woolf, On Being Ill, 4.

2 Amyuni, “Khūrī, Ilyās [Elias Khoury] (1948–),” 447.

3 Khuri, “al-Adab fi zaman al-wabaʾ,” 142–59.

4 Preciado, Dysphoria Mundi, 15.

5 al-ʿAsqalani, Merits of the Plague, 200.

6 Ibid., 197.

7 Ibid., 203

8 Ibid., 205.

9 Ibid., 202.

10 Ibid., 202.

11 Ibid., 204.

12 Ibid., 205.

13 Ibid., 204.

14 Ibid., 208.

15 Camus, The Plague, 90.

16 Ibid., 198–9.

17 Ibid., 65.

18 Ibid., 21.

19 Ibid., 233.

20 al-Malaʾika, Revolt Against the Sun, 32.

21 Mutadārik is a meter in classical Arabic prosody.

22 “Dalida” was the stage name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (1933–87), a singer and actress who was born in Egypt to Italian parents.

23 Chedid, The Sixth Day, 13.

24 Ibid., 29.

25 Ibid., 38.

26 Ibid., 32.

27 Ibid., 45–6.

28 Ibid., 51.

29 Ibid., 53.

30 Ibid., 112.

31 Ibid., 169.

32 Ibid., 170.

33 Qays ibn al-Mulawwah was a seventh-century poet whose adoration of his beloved Layla has been immortalized in his poetry. He was driven mad when her parents refused to marry her to him. Waddah al-Yaman was an Umayyad poet who was executed for writing a love poem about an encounter with the caliph’s wife.

34 García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 237.

35 Ibid., 424.

36 Mann, Death in Venice, 56.

37 Ibid., 54.

38 Saramago, Blindness, 326.

39 Saramago, Seeing, 158.

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