The Year of Passages
ISBN: 9780816685691
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Algeria -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Fiction; Algerians -- Travel -- Foreign countries -- Fiction;

A hilarious portrait of a figure shuttling between different continents, cultures, and idioms just after the collapse of French-Algerian relations in 1992. Narrated by a North African author exiled to the United States because he has been condemned by religious fanatics after the publication of his novel entitled Dead Letters, Bensma-a's knowledge of the history, the literature, and the philosophical ideas of our times underlies the novel without intruding into it directly."


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