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Astrolabe of the Sea,Used
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From Kirkus Reviews The Astrolabe Of The Sea ($10.95 paperback original; Sept. 1996; 128 pp.; 087286314X): From Nadir (the pseudonym of a well known North African writer,'' now living in France): an enigmatic metafiction, volume one of a projected trilogy, in which the title object (a nautical instrument of calculation), recovered after centuries from the ocean depths by a shipwrecked sailor, tells'' a series of Orientalflavored tales that mingle allegorical moralizing about endangered Arab cultures with racy, florid, anecdotes about giant bats, evil ogres and voracious succubi.'' Neither the glimpsed presence of a hovering film crew nor the character of the novel's'' apparent protagonist is convincingly integrated into the fabric of a surpassingly strange work whose intentions we may hope will be clarified when said trilogy is completed. Copyright 1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Product Description The Astrolabe of the Seaa work of beauty, originality, and universal outlookis part ancient fable, part contemporary ironic narrative. A mysterious astrolabe that unfolds 'the fabric of dreams' to all who gaze upon it was once consigned to the depths of the sea by a Persian king who did not want men 'to forget the weight of the concrete and the empire of the real.' Centuries later, it is found by a castaway navigator, who is captivated by its stories that combine elements from the realm of myth and dreams, conjuring up a world where the imagination holds sway.Yet also unfolded from the fabric of these revisited ancient tales is a procession of allegories reflecting the present stresses of an Arab world torn between an impossible fidelity to the past and its difficult position on the cutting edge of the most vital debates of the day. In this first volume of a classic trilogy, Nadir combines a contemporary, emergent postmodern vision with the rich poetic tradition of the Arab and Mediterranean worlds.
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