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Männer in der Sonne
Drei Palästinenser wollen sich von einem vierten in einem leeren Wassertank aus dem Irak nach Kuwait schmuggeln lassen – weit weg von der »Hölle« der Flüchtlingslager und der Armut ins »Paradies« des aufstrebenden Ölstaates. An der Grenze wird der Fahrer wider Erwarten aufgehalten. Der durch die sengende Sonne inzwischen zum Dampfkochtopf aufgeheizte Wassertank droht zum elenden Grab der drei Männer zu werden.
Als die Palästinenser 1948 aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben wurden, verliessen sie diese mit gebeugtem Haupt. Und so verharrten sie jahrelang, unfähig, das Geschehene zu bewältigen. Erst Mitte der sechziger Jahre begannen sie sich zu wehren, im Handeln ihr Selbstbewusstsein wiederherzustellen. Im Roman Männer in der Sonne schildert Ghassan Kanafani diese beiden Etappen palästinensischer Existenz: Lähmung und beginnende Selbstbesinnung; er beschreibt Palästinenser, die die Vertreibung ihres Volkes miterlebt haben und daran leiden.
Als die Palästinenser 1948 aus ihrer Heimat vertrieben wurden, verliessen sie diese mit gebeugtem Haupt. Und so verharrten sie jahrelang, unfähig, das Geschehene zu bewältigen. Erst Mitte der sechziger Jahre begannen sie sich zu wehren, im Handeln ihr Selbstbewusstsein wiederherzustellen. Im Roman Männer in der Sonne schildert Ghassan Kanafani diese beiden Etappen palästinensischer Existenz: Lähmung und beginnende Selbstbesinnung; er beschreibt Palästinenser, die die Vertreibung ihres Volkes miterlebt haben und daran leiden.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1963
About the author
Ghassan Kanafani
101 books2,352 followersGhassan Kanafani (Arabic: غسان كنفاني)
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees.
After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. There, he began writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens.
In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation. In Beirut, he published the novel Men in the Sun (1962). He also published extensively on literature and politics, focusing on the the Palestinian liberation movement and the refugee experience, as well as engaging in scholarly literary criticism, publishing several books about post-1948 Palestinian and Israeli literature.
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees.
After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. There, he began writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens.
In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation. In Beirut, he published the novel Men in the Sun (1962). He also published extensively on literature and politics, focusing on the the Palestinian liberation movement and the refugee experience, as well as engaging in scholarly literary criticism, publishing several books about post-1948 Palestinian and Israeli literature.
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