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Our Memory Has No Future
Alcalay, Ammiel | March 7, 1994 issue

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This article critically appraises the books "Of Cities & Women," and "Paris, When It's Naked," by Etel Adnan. As well as being a novelist, essayist and poet, Adnan is also a painter, a fact that constantly informs her work, particularly her two latest books. Of the connections between language, image and origins, Adnan has written that she can only express herself in Arabic through painting. "Paris When It's Naked" is the testimony of a lover whose conscience is stricken, whose awareness has been pierced by the fruit of other knowledge and experience.

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OF Cities & Women (Book); PARIS, When It's Naked (Book); ADNAN, Etel; ARTISTS; BOOKS & reading; PAINTING
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