Jalal Toufic Boeken

Drawing on a rich cultural heritage, the author weaves a fictionalized memoir that explores the lives of three deeply affected peoples. Influenced by Nietzsche and Kafka, he transforms ordinary moments, like sitting in a café, into profound reflections on life, philosophy, and cinema, shaped by his experiences as a filmmaker. The narrative delves into the concept of 'distraction' as an essential aspect of existence, blending humor, eroticism, and surrealism to create a compelling vision of daily life intertwined with art and history.

Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. This second edition of a collection of his essays whirls around the appearance of the unworldly in art, culture, history, and the present.