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Title

We computers : a ghazal novel

Type

  • Text
  • Monograph

Contribution

Subject

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Language

Classification

  • LCC: PG3482.S575 W4 2025
  • LCC: PG3482.S575 B5913 2025
  • DDC: 891.73/44
  • 18.83

Content

Note

English translation from Uzbek.

Summary

"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."--Page 4 of cover.

Origin Date(s)

2022

Authorized Access Point

Ismailov, Hamid, 1954-. We computers : a ghazal novel

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  • Date: 2026-09-30T17:49:11.579229+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24027205

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  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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