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Bevat de naam: Ḥasan Balāsim

Werken van Hassan Blasim

The Iraqi Christ (2013) 85 exemplaren
The Madman of Freedom Square (2009) 72 exemplaren
Allah99 (2019) 17 exemplaren
God 99 (2020) 11 exemplaren
Kelloja ja vieraita (2021) 4 exemplaren
Irački Krist : i druge priče (2016) 1 exemplaar
Allah 99 1 exemplaar
Allah 99 roman (2020) 1 exemplaar

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Balāsim, Ḥasan
حسن بلاسم
Geboortedatum
1973
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Iraq
Geboorteplaats
Bagdad, Iraq
Woonplaatsen
Finland

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FYI Review - This anthology contains the following short stories:
-Introduction / Hassan Blasim ; Translated by Jonathan Wright
-Kahramana / Anoud
-The Gardens of Babylons / Hassan Balsim ; Translated by Jonathan Wright
-The Corporal / Ali Bader ; Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette
-The Worker / Diaa Jubaili ; Translated by Andrew Leber
-The Day by Day Mosque / Mortada Gzar ; Translated by Katharine Halls
-Baghdad Syndrome / Zhraa Alhaboby ; Translated by Emre Bennett
-Operation Daniel / Khalid Kaki ; Translated by Adam Talib
-Kuszib / Hassan Abdulrazzak
-The Here and Now Prison / Jalal Hasan ; Translated by Max Weiss
-Najufa / Ibrahim al-Marashi
-Afterword / Ra Page
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Lemeritus | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 14, 2024 |
I enjoyed this collection of stories. Many of the stories were melancholy and dark and tied to the war. Often they felt more like literary fiction than science fiction. I liked reading the different stories that were not from a U.S./U.K. centric voice. Although the stories were written by different authors, they all had very similar themes, atmosphere, and feeling. I wish there would have been a story by a woman author, or even one with a prominent woman character. I definitely recommend this collection to those that enjoy world literature, whether or not you enjoy science fiction.… (meer)
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Cora-R | 1 andere bespreking | May 21, 2021 |
I think it's possible to write stories about terrible things without the reader feeling bludgeoned. The problem I have with these stories is that they are relentless in a way that I believe should be preserved for non-fiction or for visual representation of factual events. The blurb on the back of the Penguin edition claims that this collection "offers us a pageant of horrors, as haunting as the photos of Abu Ghraib..." but I say, look at the photos of Abu Ghraib instead. Fiction, language itself, implies logic and order, where even the most nihilistic writing is an act of faith.

A short story collection that I think succeeded in documenting terrible things, without sinking under its own weight, is [b:Kolyma Tales|109812|Kolyma Tales|Varlam Shalamov|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348611733s/109812.jpg|105834] by [a:Varlam Shalamov|63552|Varlam Shalamov|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1222952456p2/63552.jpg].
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poingu | 9 andere besprekingen | Feb 22, 2020 |
These stories left me with a feeling of cultural inaccessibility. The writing is strong and the characters engaging but within each tale is a violence and surreal turn that would leave me uneasy or simply confused.

I suspect that this is the intent, and that it may in fact scratch the surface of what it must be like to live in a region that since ancient times: has been invaded; involved in internecine wars; is regularly subject to internal political, religious, and tribal skirmishes. It's gotta be disorienting for the impoverished living in an oil rich nation and regardless of status, I imagine life for many probably is marred by violence and surreal turns of events.

The sense of dis-ease is perhaps what Blasim is targeting. If so, bulls-eye. The stories I felt I best understood: "The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes" and "The Reality and the Record." Most intrigued by: "The Corpse Exhibition", "The Thousand and One Knives", and "The Song of the Goats". Most WTF: "The Green Zone Rabbit". Most compelling: "Iraqi Christ".
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