Author: Rabih Alameddine

Cites

• Fernando Pessoa (1)
  • IN: An Unnecessary Woman (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: From my village I see as much of the universe as you can see from earth, So my village is as big as any other land For I am the size of what I see, Not the size of my height.
    FROM: The Keeper of Sheep, (1925), Book, Portugal
• Richard Flanagan (1)
  • IN: An Unnecessary Woman (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliation - that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls. And more, moreover. Or perhaps not.
    FROM: Gould's Book of Fish, (2001), Novel, Australian
• Marianne Moore (1)
  • IN: An Unnecessary Woman (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The cure for loneliness is solitude.
    FROM: If I were Sixteen Today, (1958), Article, US
• Franz Kafka (1)
  • IN: An Unnecessary Woman (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
    FROM: Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings, (1952), Book, Czech Republic
• Marc Augé (1)
  • IN: The Angel of History (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.
    FROM: Oblivion, (2004), Book, France
• Milan Kundera (1)
  • IN: The Angel of History (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
    FROM: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, (1979), Novel, Czech Republic