Hamid Ismailov We Computers review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de schrijver uit Oezbekistan. Op 19 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman van Hamid Ismailov, de in Kirgizië geboren Oezbeekse schrijver. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Hamid Ismailov We Computers review en recensie

• “A multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by a writer of immense poetic power.” (Guardian)
• “Ismailov’s best novel yet, We Computers braids together exquisite classical and modern poetry, disorienting autofiction, and Oulipian metaliterary trickery, without ever losing its sense of fun. Fairweather-Vega’s translation handles the multilingual quotations and protean range of pastiche with remarkable deftness.” (Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University)
• “Many paths cross in Ismailov’s beautiful new work–poetry, history and the infinite imagination. Every path winding into another. Every path worth taking.” (Patti Smith)

We Computers

• Auteur: Hamid Ismailov (Oezbekistan)
• Soort boek: Oezbeekse roman
• Origineel: Bizkim – komputerlar 
• Engelse vertaling: Shelley Fairweather-Vega
• Uitgever: Yale University Press
• Verschijnt: 19 augustus 2025
• Omvang: 296 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
• Prijs: $ 20.00
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon

Flaptekst van de roman van de Oezbeekse schrijver Hamid Ismailov

In the late 1980s, French poet and psychologist Jon‑Perse finds himself in possession of one of the most promising inventions of the century: a computer. Enchanted by snippets of Persian poetry he learns from his Uzbek translation partner, Abdulhamid Ismail, Jon-Perse builds a computer program capable of both analyzing and generating literature. But beyond the text on his screen there are entire worlds—of history, philosophy, and maybe even of love—in the stories and people he and AI conjure.

Hamid Ismailov brings together his work as a poet, translator, and student of literature of both East and West to craft a postmodern ode to poetry across centuries and continents. Crossing the poètes maudits with beloved Sufi classics, blending absurdist dreams with the life of the famed Persian poet Hafez, moving from careful mathematical calculations to lyrical narratives, Ismailov invents an ingenious transnational poetics of love and longing for the digital age. Situated at the crossroads of a multilingual world and mediated by the unreliable sensibilities of digital intelligence, this book is a dazzling celebration of how poetry resonates across time and space.

Hamid Ismailov, was born on 5 May 1954 in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan and raised in Uzbekistan. He is considered Central Asia’s foremost living author. His books include The Railway, The Dead Lake, Manashi, The Underground, Of Strangers and Bees and The Devil’s Dance. He lives in Hertz, UK.

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