Author : Walid Bitar
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : 9781552452547
Divide and Rule by Walid Bitar Pdf
In Divide and Rule, Walid Bitar delivers a sequence of dramatic monologues, variations on the theme of power, each in rhymed quatrains. Though the pieces grow out of Bitar's personal experiences over the last decade, both in North America and the Middle East, he is not primarily a confessional writer. His work might be called cubist, the perspectives constantly shifting, point followed by counterpoint, subtle phrase by savage outburst. Bitar's enigmatic speakers are partially rational creatures, have some need to explain, and may succeed in partially explaining, but, in the end, communication and subterfuge are inseparable - must, so to speak, co-exist.