Edward Said (A Novel of His Thoughts)

Author's name: Dominique Eddé

This book is not a biography of Edward Said, but rather an open dialogue: with the narrative of his ideas and their echoes. His texts, analyses, and Arabic translations, and the ceaseless questions they raise, his relationship with the ideas of his contemporaries and those who have passed on, his constant, arduous, yet vital isolation, his perpetually conflicting duality, and a complex emotion resistant to any explanation—all these are aspects of Said's rich life, which he lived in constant attempts to pose questions rather than find answers. These are aspects that Dominique Eddé illuminates for us in this wonderful prose.
Here is Said, the rebellious intellectual, the deeply rooted individual, resistant to reductionism, always defending meaning as a moral act. Here is a reading of a thought that remains, to this day, revolutionary and enlightening.