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Algerian Chronicles

Albert Camus
Algerian Chronicles Book PDF

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780674073807

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More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus’ Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus’ most political works—an exploration of his commitments to Algeria. Dismissed or disdained at publication, today Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, enjoys a new life in Arthur Goldhammer’s elegant translation. “Believe me when I tell you that Algeria is where I hurt at this moment,” Camus, who was the most visible symbol of France’s troubled relationship with Algeria, writes, “as others feel pain in their lungs.” Gathered here are Camus’ strongest statements on Algeria from the 1930s through the 1950s, revised and supplemented by the author for publication in book form. In her introduction, Alice Kaplan illuminates the dilemma faced by Camus: he was committed to the defense of those who suffered colonial injustices, yet was unable to support Algerian national sovereignty apart from France. An appendix of lesser-known texts that did not appear in the French edition complements the picture of a moralist who posed questions about violence and counter-violence, national identity, terrorism, and justice that continue to illuminate our contemporary world.

Algerian Chronicles

Albert Camus
Algerian Chronicles Book PDF

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780674073784

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More than 50 years after independence, Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958—the year the war caused the collapse of the Fourth French Republic—it is one of Albert Camus’ most political works: an exploration of his commitment to Algeria.

Algerian Chronicles

Albert Camus
Algerian Chronicles Book PDF

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0674416759

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Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus Pdf

More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus’ Algerian Chronicles appears here in English for the first time. Published in France in 1958, the same year the Algerian War brought about the collapse of the Fourth French Republic, it is one of Camus’ most political works—an exploration of his commitments to Algeria. Dismissed or disdained at publication, today Algerian Chronicles, with its prescient analysis of the dead end of terrorism, enjoys a new life in Arthur Goldhammer’s elegant translation. “Believe me when I tell you that Algeria is where I hurt at this moment,” Camus, who was the most visible symbol of France’s troubled relationship with Algeria, writes, “as others feel pain in their lungs.” Gathered here are Camus’ strongest statements on Algeria from the 1930s through the 1950s, revised and supplemented by the author for publication in book form. In her introduction, Alice Kaplan illuminates the dilemma faced by Camus: he was committed to the defense of those who suffered colonial injustices, yet was unable to support Algerian national sovereignty apart from France. An appendix of lesser-known texts that did not appear in the French edition complements the picture of a moralist who posed questions about violence and counter-violence, national identity, terrorism, and justice that continue to illuminate our contemporary world.

I Was a French Muslim

Mokhtar Mokhtefi
I Was a French Muslim Book PDF

Author : Mokhtar Mokhtefi
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781635421811

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I Was a French Muslim by Mokhtar Mokhtefi Pdf

GQ: Best of Modern Middle Eastern Literature This engaging memoir provides a vivid account of a childhood under French colonization and a life dedicated to fighting for the freedom and dignity of the Algerian people. The son of a butcher and the youngest of six siblings, Mokhtar Mokhtefi was born in 1935 and grew up in a village de colonisation roughly one hundred kilometers south of the capital of Algiers. Thanks to the efforts of a supportive teacher, he became the only child in the family to progress to high school, attending a French lycée that deepened his belief in the need for independence. In 1957, at age twenty-two, he joined the National Liberation Army (ALN), the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN), which had been waging war against France since 1954. After completing rigorous training in radio transmissions at a military base in Morocco, he went on to become an officer in the infamous Ministère de l’Armement et des Liaisons Générales (MALG), the precursor of post-independence Algeria’s Military Security (SM). Mokhtefi’s powerful memoir bears witness to the extraordinary men and women who fought for Algerian independence against a colonial regime that viewed non-Europeans as fundamentally inferior, designating them not as French citizens, but as “French Muslims.” He presents a nuanced, intelligent, and deeply personal perspective on Algeria’s transition to independent statehood, with all its inherent opportunities and pitfalls.

Inside the Battle of Algiers

Zohra Drif
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Author : Zohra Drif
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1682570754

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This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct attacks in retaliation for French aggression against the local population, they leapt at the chance. Their actions were later portrayed in Gillo Pontecorvo's famed film The Battle of Algiers. When first published in French in 2013, this intimate memoir was met with great acclaim and no small amount of controversy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century and their relevance today, but also the specific challenges that women often confronted (and overcame) in those movements.

Journal, 1955-1962

Mouloud Feraoun
Journal 1955 1962 Book PDF

Author : Mouloud Feraoun
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080326903X

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Journal, 1955-1962 by Mouloud Feraoun Pdf

?This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to the public good, and who was one of the greatest writers in Algeria, has been murdered. . . . Not by accident, not by mistake, but called by his name and killed with preference.? So wrote Germaine Tillion in Le Monde shortly after Mouloud Feraoun?s assassination by a right wing French terrorist group, the Organisation Armäe Secr_te, just three days before the official cease-fire ended Algeria?s eight-year battle for independence from France. However, not even the gunmen of the OAS could prevent Feraoun?s journal from being published. Journal, 1955?1962 appeared posthumously in French in 1962 and remains the single most important account of everyday life in Algeria during decolonization. Feraoun was one of Algeria?s leading writers. He was a friend of Albert Camus, Emmanuel Robl_s, Pierre Bourdieu, and other French and North African intellectuals. A committed teacher, he had dedicated his life to preparing Algeria?s youth for a better future. As a Muslim and Kabyle writer, his reflections on the war in Algeria afford penetrating insights into the nuances of Algerian nationalism, as well as into complex aspects of intellectual, colonial, and national identity. Feraoun?s Journal captures the heartbreak of a writer profoundly aware of the social and political turmoil of the time. This classic account, now available in English, should be read by anyone interested in the history of European colonialism and the tragedies of contemporary Algeria.

Albert Camus

Oliver Gloag
Albert Camus Book PDF

Author : Oliver Gloag
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198792970

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Albert Camus by Oliver Gloag Pdf

Albert Camus is one of the best known philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as a widely read novelist. This book contextualises Camus in his troubled and conflicted times, and analyses the enduring popularity of his major philosophical and literary works in connection with contemporary political, social, and cultural issues.

Personal Writings

Albert Camus
Personal Writings Book PDF

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525567226

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The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan. Albert Camus (1913-1960) is unsurpassed among writers for a body of work that animates the wonder and absurdity of existence. Personal Writings brings together, for the first time, thematically-linked essays from across Camus's writing career that reflect the scope and depth of his interior life. Grappling with an indifferent mother and an impoverished childhood in Algeria, an ever-present sense of exile, and an ongoing search for equilibrium, Camus's personal essays shed new light on the emotional and experiential foundations of his philosophical thought and humanize his most celebrated works.

Looking for The Stranger

Alice Kaplan
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Author : Alice Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226241678

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Looking for The Stranger by Alice Kaplan Pdf

"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world, "--NoveList.

The Meursault Investigation

Kamel Daoud
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Author : Kamel Daoud
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590517529

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 “A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.” —The New Yorker He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name—Musa—and describes the events that led to Musa’s casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud’s story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.

Algiers, Third World Capital

Elaine Mokhtefi
Algiers Third World Capital Book PDF

Author : Elaine Mokhtefi
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788730020

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Algiers, Third World Capital by Elaine Mokhtefi Pdf

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics Following the Algerian war for independence and the defeat of France in 1962, Algiers became the liberation capital of the Third World. Elaine Mokhtefi, a young American woman immersed in the struggle and working with leaders of the Algerian Revolution, found a home here. A journalist and translator, she lived among guerrillas, revolutionaries, exiles, and visionaries, witnessing historical political formations and present at the filming of The Battle of Algiers. Mokhtefi crossed paths with some of the era’s brightest stars: Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, Timothy Leary, Ahmed Ben Bella, Jomo Kenyatta, and Eldridge Cleaver. She was instrumental in the establishment of the International Section of the Black Panther Party in Algiers and close at hand as the group became involved in intrigue, murder, and international hijackings. She traveled with the Panthers and organized Cleaver’s clandestine departure for France. Algiers, Third World Capital is an unforgettable story of an era of passion and promise.

French Global

Christie McDonald,Susan Suleiman
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Author : Christie McDonald,Susan Suleiman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231519229

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French Global by Christie McDonald,Susan Suleiman Pdf

Recasting French literary history in terms of the cultures and peoples that interacted within and outside of France's national boundaries, this volume offers a new way of looking at the history of a national literature, along with a truly global and contemporary understanding of language, literature, and culture. The relationship between France's national territory and other regions of the world where French is spoken and written (most of them former colonies) has long been central to discussions of "Francophonie." Boldly expanding such discussions to the whole range of French literature, the essays in this volume explore spaces, mobilities, and multiplicities from the Middle Ages to today. They rethink literary history not in terms of national boundaries, as traditional literary histories have done, but in terms of a global paradigm that emphasizes border crossings and encounters with "others." Contributors offer new ways of reading canonical texts and considering other texts that are not part of the traditional canon. By emphasizing diverse conceptions of language, text, space, and nation, these essays establish a model approach that remains sensitive to the specificities of time and place and to the theoretical concerns informing the study of national literatures in the twenty-first century.

A Life Worth Living

Robert Zaretsky
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Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674728370

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Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition.

The Collaborator

Alice Kaplan
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Author : Alice Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226424146

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The Collaborator by Alice Kaplan Pdf

Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.

The Adulterous Woman

Albert Camus
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Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0141195843

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Camus's writing confronts the great philosophical dilemmas of our time with piercing clarity. These three powerful and evocative stories are heavy with the weight of the human condition, and rich with atmosphere. In them, an ageing labourer, a woman travelling in North Africa with her husband, and a schoolteacher tasked with transporting a prisoner each face their own moral crises.