Downshifting Kamal Abdellatif a subject notoriously difficult to

a subject notoriously difficult to write about

Silvia Tomasa Rivera

Since his first book of poems Life Styles appeared in 1973 he has been writing and publishing

discreetly metaphysical

Downshifting Kamal Abdellatif a subject notoriously difficult toDownshifting celebrates places where the nourishing values of literature survive; places where the technological revolution and celebrity culture fails to intrude upon enduring and deeply felt human values. Though by no means a reactionary tract for the time, it is not afraid to mourn the loss of value and meaning, to lyricise the enduring, to turn away from the default modern poses of irony and fatalism. It also contains several meditations on the