Member of honor: Assia DJEBAR
SDM Third shutter of the "Algerian Quartet" which is a female chronicle over a whole century. Preceding titles love, the fantasia and Ombre sultana (Lattès). -- Documentary Services Multi-media |
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Presentation of the editor This novel inaugurates a cycle entitled "the Quartet of Algiers". The history begins in June 1830, date of the catch of Algiers by the French fleet. Twenty years of fight follow, which the figure of the emir Abdelkader dominates. Then comes time from a French supremacy without division. These scenes of history alternate with the account of the proper childhood of the narrator, in a village of the Sahel. Around them, a world of cloîtrées women dream with inaccessible meetings in love... SDM the author is a scenario writer Algerian. Its novel contains autobiographical scenes, poetic comments and accounts of wars (that of the Conquest in 1830 and that of Independence) implying women. The oral history mixes with the occasion with the literary account. -- Documentary Services Multi-media |
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SDM Destiny of women in Islam through a lyric novel which mixes the fiction with the history. -- Documentary Services Multi-media |
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Presentation of the editor: will "Twenty years of exile appear unreal to him, dark casting disappearing behind him? Streets in network of the Kasbah (those of Pépé Moko, said to him by smiling Marise which never came up to now), it will re-examine them in theobscure one of this old Algiers, Djazirat el Bahdja, the beautiful one, the glorious one, so a long time the impregnable one, the city of the legendary pirates, bits of history that its memory, with him, the child of the district, this morning on the road macerates... " The Disappearance of the French language evokes the return of a man in Algeria after a long exile. Taken with the trap of the memory, quartered between its French education, the training of the street in Algiers of the Fifties and its early engagement in the war of independence, it does not recognize any more the native soil. |
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Presentation of the editor In 1832, into recently conquered Algiers, Delacroix is introduced a few hours into a harem. It brings back of them a masterpiece, Femmes of Algiers in their apartment, which remains a "stolen glance". Do one century and half later, twenty years after the war of independence in which the Algerian ones played a part that no one cannot dispute to them, how live with the daily newspaper, which margin of freedom could conquer? In this collection of news published for the first time in 1980 and increased here of a long new news, the Night of the account of Fatima, Assia Djebar tells: lived, the difficulty of being, the revolt and the tender, the rigour of the Law which survives all the upheavals and the eternal condition of the women "Language of the shade", often premonitory compared to the immediate history, Femmes of Algiers in their apartment became traditional in many countries where it received an exceptional reception. |
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Fourth of cover : to find Francois, a twenty year old lover his elder, Thelja leaves Paris. The short loves but fulgurating of this woman until a husband and a child wait in Algiers, and this widowed French, tormented in the past, will last nine nights. Last nine nights during which their desires will be combined, their agitations, their pleasures. With-outside, the town of Strasbourg recovers from its recent history and shelters other characters as disconcerting as the two first. Eve, a small Jewish enclosure of works of a young German, Jacqueline who assembles Antigone in a theatre of suburbs, and others still, shades which haunt the scene with their read-write memories and significant. Canticle of love, ode to savours of the life, this novel however does not fail to expose its heroes, without make-up, in pitiless comparison with the History. |
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Fourth of cover : "In this news (including an account and a tale), which did I seek between two spaces, between Algérie and France, or in only Algeria, while it is quartered more and more between desire and died? What guided my impulse to continue, so free, so unnecessarily, the account of the fears, of fears, seized on the lips of so many of my alarmed sisters, or in constant danger? Nothing other that the desire to reach this "absolute reader" - i.e. that which, by its reading of silence and solidarity, allows that the writing of pursues or from the murder releases at least its shade which would palpitate to the horizon... " SDM The women of Algeria are the high-speed motorboats of this three news and these four accounts. Victims because targets of intolerance and fanaticism, they express their fear and also their tenderness, they testify to their condition and their destiny. -- Documentary Services Multi-media |
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Presentation of the editor: "To write, for me, it is initially to recreate, in the language which I live, the irrepressible movement of the body to the outside". With these words of Assia Djebar, Pierre Michon answers, in echo: "To write, it is to plead for his. One writes in the skin of this being, a arabo-Berber woman who makes use of her freedom to return among his, by the long turning of a foreign language and whole space of the world ". Such is the tone of this volume which joins together around the work of Assia Djebar, writer of Algeria in the French language, the writers, the academics, the translators and scenario writers of ten country. Each one with its manner follows the course of a literary work where the questioning of the thought, nomad, seeks a form with its movements: sonata, running away, spree, quartet, arabesque, fantasia are some of secret architectures of Assia Djebar. We will find there texts of Hubert Nyssen, Judith Miller, Albert Memmi, Michelle Perrot, Jacqueline Risset, Ernstpeter Ruhe, Mireille Calle-Gruber, François Bon, Andrée Chedid, Assia Djebar, Gilles Clemens, Abdelkebir Khatibi, Eberhard Gruber, Anne-Brigitte Kern, Wolfgang Asholt, Pierre Michon, Jeanne-Marie Clerc, Clarisse Zimra, Maria Nadotti, Ingvar Rydberg, Manuel Serrat Crespo, Beate Thill, Lise Gauvin, Maïssa Bey, Michele Vialet, Alison Rice, Herve Sanson. |
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