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- 35
- I am...
- ...the fourth member of an italian "five heads" writing collective called Wu Ming, that in chinese means "no name", "anonimous".
- I have a website
- http://www.wumingfoundation.com
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- writing
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- novelist
- Artistic and professional experiences
- Wu Ming wrote some collective historical novels. The most famous, translated in more than ten different languages, is "Q", signed with our precedent pseudonym "Luther Blissett" (we abandoned it in 1999 giving birth to Wu Ming). The second one is "54", translated in english, spanish and dutch. Now we are waiting for the english translation of our last collective novel "Manituana". Every member of Wu Ming have a number who distinguish him (so we have Wu Ming 1, Wu Ming 2, etc.) and sign his a solo novel with this pen name. My a solo., "Stella del mattino", a novel about Lawrence of Arabia, has been published in Italy this year.
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From Camelot to Damascus
Wu Ming 4's lecture at Hammam Al Malik Al Zahir, Old Damascus, October 17th 2008.
FROM CAMELOT TO DAMASCUS
"How the Myths ought to be put together if the Making is to go right" - Literary influences and persistence of myth in the construction of Lawrence of Arabia icon.
1. Intro
The subtitle of this lecture is a quotation. It concerns the provocative translation assumed by professor Gilbert Murray in the Twenties’ of last century, from the incipit of the Poetics by Aris… Continue
FROM CAMELOT TO DAMASCUS
"How the Myths ought to be put together if the Making is to go right" - Literary influences and persistence of myth in the construction of Lawrence of Arabia icon.
1. Intro
The subtitle of this lecture is a quotation. It concerns the provocative translation assumed by professor Gilbert Murray in the Twenties’ of last century, from the incipit of the Poetics by Aris… Continue
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Grazie,
F.
all the information needed of the history of municipality is in tis site , in arabic
http://www.damascus.gov.sy/NR/exeres/710E660E-0340-4A1E-A326-1F30EF721F61.htm
it seems that the first municipality was built in al marjeh square by the governor Hussein Nazem Bacha in 1895 and its the big old building with big gate in the middle of it, tha same governor ( wali ) H Nazem Bacha built also the sarai house ( Government hous ) behind the municipality which is now the ministry of interior ( we passed beside it ) and this building was also used as teh governement house during the united Arab states during King al Faisal era in 1920
hope this is what you are looking for
Felice di incontrarti a damasco, your english is not bad...see u soon
i would like to arrange for you a public reading as a guest at the beit al khassid (house of the poets) where the poets of damascus, syria and iraq meet every monday. you could give a reading of your work in italian language in their 'normal' program and there would be a translator who prepares a translation of your work beforehand in arabic. see pdf with images, so you get a feeling of the atmosphere in this place - full of the 70's, gandhi and martin luther king spiriting the walls ;) ahleen :)
smilez from sham***sanbeit al khassid.pdf
"Stella del Mattino" (it could be translated as "Morning Star", but as it's a quotation from a poem by Robert Graves the best translation is "The Star of the Morning") is a sort of "what if" novel. Starting from the real friendship between Lawrence and Robert Graves after the IWW, in Oxford, I tried to imagine a meeting between Lawrence and others "not yet famous" authors, as young J.R.R.Tolkien and C.S.Lewis, who lived in Oxford too in 1919-1920. In other words Lawrence's figure and mithography is analysed from three different perspectives (Graves, Lewis, Tolkien), those of three war veterans who will formed three different images of the hero or antihero, due to different ideas of Mith. Obviously at the end of the novel no one of the main characters will be tha same who was at the beginning, but everyone of them will find his own way through the confrontation or clash with the Lawrence's icon and racked personality.
The plot is also alternate with some dream-like flash-backs of the arab revolt.
I'm developing the presentation of my lecture/workshop for RID. I think it will be ready tomorrow to be put online. It concerns T.E. Lawrence and what his icon "in chiaroscuro" represents.