Between language and silence. Books, images, films, ideas.
Beirut, 1971. Alex Derian is twenty-two, an actor with a growing reputation and no clear plan for what comes next. When an unexpected scholarship offers him two years at Syracuse University, followed by a commitment to teach theater back in Beirut, he must decide what he is willing to leave behind.
Set in the years before Lebanon’s civil war, Two Years is a novel about youth, love, ambition, and the belief that the life we leave behind will be there when we come back.
NO INSTRUCTION is a collection of observations, paradoxes, reflections, and conceptual propositions,composed of brief, self-contained pieces.
It may be read from beginning to end, or begun at any page.
The accompanying notes offer another way of approaching the work, without claiming to explain it.
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NOT IN MY FOOT is a collection of linguistic abstractions, paradoxes, fragments, recursive devices, and conceptual miniatures
Its brief texts unfold through repetition, contradiction, interruption, and reversal, inviting multiple paths through language rather than a single line of meaning.
Each piece stands independently while contributing to a larger field of relationships that shifts with every reading.
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