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Wadih Saadeh / The Complete Works
Paperback
Publisher: Sulfur Editions
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 690
Weight: 3.46
Height: 1.38 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
WADIH SAADEH / THE COMPLETE WORKS
Translated by Mohsen El Belasy
Artworks by Ghadah Kamal
Published By Sulfur Editions
The publication of WADIH SAADEH / THE COMPLETE WORKS by Sulfur Editions in 2025 marks a pivotal moment in the literary landscape, presenting a comprehensive compilation of the esteemed poet's oeuvre. This monumental volume, translated by Mohsen El Belasy, Artworks by Ghadah Kamal, consolidates Saadeh's poetic output from 1968 to 2014, offering a definitive and cohesive collection of his life's work.
Wadih Sa'adeh Birth name: Wadih Amine STEPHAN - is a Lebanese Australian poet. He was born in Lebanon in 1948.
In 1973 he published his first poetry book written by hand, and sold it in the streets, titled Laysa Lil Massa' Ikhwah (Evening Has No Brothers), which was published in 1981.
After many travelling to many countries - England, France, Greece, Cyprus - Wadih Sa'adeh immigrated to Australia in November, 1988, and has been living in Sydney since that date.
Clarissa C. Burt, Assistant Professor of Arabic in United States Naval Academy, wrote: As a member of the new Arab diaspora, Wadih Sa'adeh's poetry bespeaks the global scope of contemporary Arabic writing, much as Jibran Khalil Jibran's writing of the first mahjar helped to the trigger aspects of modernity in Arabic literature in the twentieth century. In the course of his poetic career, Sa'adeh's work has emerged from the level of the local into the exilic, to reach the level of the existential, and thus speak not only to Arabs across the globe of this generation disaffected by repeated loss, violent upheaval and continual disenfranchisement, but to all of us about the horrors and unfulfillable longings of human existence (...) Wadih Sa'adeh's publications are truly remarkable monumental works of post modern nihilism, emerging from his experience and articulation of exile and alienation in his own life, purified and distilled to come have universal implications. The careful comparison and study of the relationship of Sa'adeh's texts with the works of Nietzsche are obviously needed to accurately gauge their similarities and divergences, and the level of intertextuality bridging between them. In addition, Sa'adeh's texts would be fruitfully compared with the corpus of Jibran Khalil Jibran, for the large structural similarities in their lives, and the major differences in the tones of their aphoristic writings. Moreover, comparing the oppositional wordplay in Sa'adeh with al-Niffari and other sufi writers will clarify to what extent Sa'adeh has borrowed from the terminology of sufi disciplines and spiritual orders to articulate his negative and nihilist message. Finally, one can only hope that this remarkable poet, this humble latter-day Arabic Nietzsche, this nihilist literary reincarnation of Jibran, this dark angel of existential exile will fail in any attempt at literary suicide, and will grace us with his sad songs, or new songs of triumph, and hope renewed in some kind of literary transcendence over the pain of existential exile, which he has so thoroughly described, explored and mapped for us all .
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