“There, where the battle is lost and won and where, after the hurly-burly is done, we may approach a speaking that is of neither a living language nor a dead one. A speaking that knows loss and knows it is woven into every uttered word, every spoken sentence. A loss that becomes syntax.”
- Walid Sadek
How does one language inherit another? Defeat, erase or live through another? How to speak dead is Walid Sadek’s meditative reflection on language, dead or victorious. At heart, beyond defeat and victory, it is a reflection on how one can approach a speaking that is of neither a living language nor a dead one. A speaking that knows loss and knows it is woven into every uttered word, every spoken sentence. A loss that becomes syntax.
Walid Sadek lives in Beirut.
Commissioned and published by Kayfa ta (2025)
Design template by Julie Peeters
Cover illustration by Maha Maamoun
Printed at 53dots, Beirut
ISBN 978-1-955702-25-6
9.6 x 14.8 cm, 80 pages, softcover
