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Des villes et des femmes/Paris mis à nu

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"Rome est une ville que les femmes aiment. Cela se voit immédiatement dans les rues. Elles ont la démarche à la fois nonchalante et pressée, elles sont fières et pourtant indulgentes, elles sont sceptiques quant aux choses de l’amour et toutes données à leurs passions. Elles aiment la pierre sur laquelle elles appuient leur fausse faiblesse, et les monuments qui les entourent leur donnent de l’assurance. Elles savent que tout change et que rien ne passe."

Avec Des villes et des femmes, Etel Adnan nous ouvre les portes d’un voyage méditatif. Barcelone, Beyrouth, Rome, parmi d’autres, se dévoilent au gré des chemins empruntés par des femmes.
Chaque étape de ces déambulations sensibles se mue en une exploration intérieure, dialogue entre l’urbain et la sensation, examen minutieux des vies alentour. Paris mis à nu, aussi recueilli ici, prolonge cette flânerie, mêlant réalité et fiction dans une écriture empreinte d’impressions.
L’œuvre d’Etel Adnan, toujours poétique et philosophique, est un témoignage vibrant de la présence de l’artiste au monde. Ses mots transcendent frontières et genres pour offrir une réflexion délicate sur l’humanité.

204 pages, Paperback

Published June 19, 2025

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Etel Adnan

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Etel Adnan was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1925. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, U.C. Berkeley, and at Harvard, and taught at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, from 1958–1972.

In solidarity with the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962), Adnan began to resist the political implications of writing in French and became a painter. Then, through her participation in the movement against the Vietnam War (1959–1975), she began to write poetry and became, in her words, “an American poet.” In 1972, she returned to Beirut and worked as cultural editor for two daily newspapers—first for Al Safa, then for L’Orient le Jour. Her novel Sitt Marie-Rose, published in Paris in 1977, won the France-Pays Arabes award and has been translated into more than ten languages.

In 1977, Adnan re-established herself in California, making Sausalito her home, with frequent stays in Paris. Adnan is the author of more than a dozen books in English, including Journey to Mount Tamalpais (1986), The Arab Apocalypse (1989), In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (2005), and Sea and Fog (2012), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry and the California Book Award for Poetry. Her most recent books are Night (2016) and Surge (2018). In 2014, she was awarded one of France’s highest cultural honors: l’Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. Numerous museums have presented solo exhibitions of Adnan’s work, including SFMoMA; Zentrum Paul Klee; Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris; Serpentine Galleries; and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar.

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