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Reasons of State

By آلِخو كاربنتييه

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2021

  • رواية

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Alejo Carpentier’s unnamed Latin American dictator is cultivated, Francophile and at home among opera, paintings and Parisian intellectuals—yet utterly corrupt and willing to stage any conspiracy required to keep power. As rebellion and historical change close in, his enlightened self-image becomes increasingly grotesque. Reasons of State is a baroque political satire of dictatorship, exposing the gap between imported culture and authoritarian practice in the modern Latin American state. Originally written in Spanish as “El recurso del método”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Bassām al-Bazzāz.

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