Doniazade

After the disappearance of her newborn daughter, a young woman is gradually getting back into life thanks to the story she gives of her mourning.

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A young woman says death, that of her little daughter, Doniazade, lost at birth. While the threads which link it to existence seem to have been cut, the story, through a painful work of mourning, gradually returns to the things of life. “In this text, Doniazade carries the burden inscribed in his name, wrote the Egyptian editor when the book came out. In Les Mille et Une Nuits, Doniazade is the victim of passion, and his sister, Schéhérazade, goes redeeming his own life thanks to his tales. Here, Doniazade dies without having been able to leave the matrix of the narrative. Writing thus meets one of his primary functions: to give life to the shadow of lost things. “With this text written in a a deliberately “white” language, like out of pain, May Telmissany is at the heart of a new generation of Egyptian writers who are prolonging socio-political questions by taking the paths of a writing of the intimate.