#literature
When Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector visited Egypt for the first time and stood before the Sphinx, she famously reflected, “I did not decipher her (the Sphinx). But neither did she decipher me.” Like many writers and novelists before her, she found Egypt to be a place that resists easy understanding; a country she could only make sense of through her own elusive, enigmatic writing. And that same sense of mystery is what has long drawn writers, thinkers, and artists…
