Literary essays
The Painter Devouring the Female Nude
by Kamel Daoud
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One of the greatest Arabic writers revisits the theme of nudes, desire and women.
Kamel Daoud spent a night alone in the Picasso Museum, a singular experience that inspired him to write this essay in which he juxtaposes the image of a female nude with the painter and a Jihadist. To Picasso, a woman was a body that could be truly captured only in terms of desire and erotic associations. The nude is also like a self-portrait imprinted on his subject’s flesh. In fact, she devours him, like a cannibal. But how does a Jihadist view this painting? In his view, the woman painted by Picasso is a scandalous anticipation of dream woman who awaits him in paradise, when he dies. She therefore incites disobedience and sin.
For the former, she evokes dying of desire. For the latter, killing desire itself or dying in order to satisfy it.
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“The writer had never revealed so much about himself” Le Figaro Littéraire “A sharp-edged, sparking reverie about women and desire” Le Point “A seductive and subversive text which examines our relationship to Art and the body from two different sides of the Mediterranean” Leila Slimani, L'Obs
Author Biography
Kamel Daoud was born in Algeria in 1970. He grew up in the village of Mesra near Oran. He is a columnist for Le Point, and Le Quotidien d’Oran, and a contributor to The New York Times and El País. His previous books include the bestseller The Meursault Investigation which has been published in translation across the world.
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- Publisher Editions Stock
- Publication Date October 2018
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9782234083738
- Publication Country or regionFrance
- FormatHardback
- Pages140
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleLe peintre dévorant la femme
- Copyright Year2018
- SeriesMy Night in a Museum
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