Back-cover text:
In The Book, the Discourse, and the Truth, the Arab poet and thinker Ali Ahmad Said, known as Adonis, examines the crises he sees in Arab societies and their inherited cultural traditions. Moving between sacred texts, religious discourse, Sufism, politics, literature, and creativity, he questions the roles of power, opposition, and society in shaping those crises.
His reflections on society, politics, and literature also speak to readers across our wider region. “How rigid is a life that the imagination cannot embrace,” he writes, inviting us to imagine and remake ourselves.
Following the poetry collections In Memory of Vague-Clear Things and This Is My Name, this book appears in Turkish translation by Mehmet Hakkı Suçin. It brings together Adonis’s questions about books, discourse, and truth, posed with characteristic boldness.