hello: Ahmed Saadawi’s hallucinatory novel Frankenstein in Baghdad, and Mohsim Hamid's Exit West, i have to say I was impressed and mesmerized reading these novels The "Exit West" intrigued me much, as I started to read it during what was called the "refugee crisis" in Europe, basically a large wave of migration, partly caused by the sectarian and military conflict in Syria, well, refugees were all over, and when I tried to imagine what it must be like to live in a war torn land, or city, i got captivated by Hamid's story of the two young people who come to imagine fleeing. the image that I told my theatre students to explore and work with was Hamid's metaphor of the black door. This door idea is wonderful, a rumor spreads in the city that people are seeing black doors , or door frames, and when you walk through them, you exit, so to speak, and you end up in a very different place, california, miami, stockholm, berlin....... What a strange and interesting magical realist image.
regards Johannes Birringer ________________________________________ From: NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on behalf of Max Herman via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> Sent: 13 February 2020 18:02 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity Cc: Max Herman Subject: [NetBehaviour] book question Has anyone read Exit West? It was the last selection in my local book club and pretty interesting from the standpoint of networks I think. I've only read half of it so far though. 🙂 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
