Dominique Eddé

In this personal portrait of Edward Saïd, written by a close friend, Dominique Eddé offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most famous texts, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism. Eddé interweaves in her original biography accounts of the genesis and content of Saïd’s work, his intellectual development, and her...

Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. 'His presence', she writes, 'gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated and precise [...] Genet's movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing.' This book is Eddé's account of that meeting and its ripples...