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Podcast: BULAQ | ุจููุงู
Episode: The Interesting Case of a Saudi Novel
Description: In Aziz Muhammad's The Critical Case of a Man Named K, an unnamed narrator is diagnosed with leukemia. His 40-week journal, shaped by his readings of Kafka, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway and Jun'ichirล Tanizaki, sarcastically and movingly documents his alienation from his body, his surroundings and even, eventually, from books.Show Notes:ย An interview with translator Humphrey Davies.We also talked about a few other works where protagonists are diagnosed with cancer:Shahla Ujayli's A Sky So Close to Us, translated by Michelle Hartman (Interlink Books); Radwa Ashour's Heavier than Radwa (Dar Al Sh...