The private library of the Syrian playwright and public intellectual Saʿdallāh Wannūs (1941-1997) arrived at the American University of Beirut in 2015. This article sets out to read Wannūs through his library. After presenting a brief overview of the books in Wannūs’ library, their subject matter, and their provenance, it examines personal book inscriptions, which unravel a rich intellectual network and provide insight into Wannūs’ trajectory and recognition as a playwright and public intellectual. It then explores the conditions under which Wannūs’ library came into existence and flourished in a Syria marked by the Baʿth party and the al-Asad regime’s authoritarian control of the political and cultural fields, under which it migrated from Damascus to Beirut in the wake of the 2011 Syrian revolution-turned-war. Wannūs’ library, the article argues, opened an Arabic and world literary space, both physical and metaphorical, from which Wannūs emerged as a modern Arabic and world-renowned playwright.

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拆开 Saʿdallāh Wannūs 的私人图书馆：论书籍的（之后）生活

叙利亚剧作家和公共知识分子 Saʿdallāh Wannūs (1941-1997) 的私人图书馆于 2015 年抵达贝鲁特美国大学。 本文旨在通过他的图书馆阅读 Wannūs。在对 Wannūs 图书馆中的书籍、它们的主题和出处进行简要概述后，它检查了个人书籍铭文，这些铭文解开了丰富的知识网络，并提供了对 Wannūs 作为剧作家和公共知识分子的轨迹和认可的洞察。然后，它探讨了 Wannūs 的图书馆在以复兴党为标志的叙利亚和阿萨德政权对政治和文化领域的专制控制下成立和繁荣的条件，在这些条件下，它从大马士革迁移到贝鲁特。 2011 年叙利亚革命演变为战争。文章认为，Wannūs 的图书馆，