Friday Finds: Zakariya Tamer’s “The Accused,” Translated and Illustrated by Molly Crabapple
Over at BuzzFeed, you can find a short story by Syrian master craftsman Zakariya Tamer, translated and illustrated by the artist and memoirist Molly Crabapple:
In the story, the Persian poet Omar Khayyám is brought back from the dead to defend himself in court.
It opens:
The fat policeman entered the tomb, walked a few bewildered moments, then shouted with a stretched voice: “Omar Khayyám!”
No one answered, so he took a dirty white handkerchief from his pocket, searched in its folds, balled it up, and returned it to his pocket. He shouted grouchily: “Omar Khayyám…Omar Khayyám…You are wanted to stand trial!”
The short-short collaboration, which can be seen in its entirety over at BuzzFeed, underlines the necessity of an illustrated Zakariya Tamer.
More by Tamer:
‘For Every Fox, An End’: By Zakariya Tamer, trans. Robert Farley
“Silent Ones,” trans. Ibrahim Muhawi
From a special issue of Banipal:
Zakaria Tamer – He Doesn’t Know, trans. Jonathan Wright
Zakaria Tamer – Why Did the River Stop Talikng?, trans. Cayton Clark
From Words Without Borders
July 7, 2017 @ 11:52 am
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