Tahar Djaout: The Last Summer of Reason

Cover: 9780803215917 | The Last Summer of Reason | Tahar Djaout | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

This elegant, haunting novel takes us deep into the world of bookstore owner Boualem Yekker. He lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god. Once-treasured art and literature are now despised. Silently holding his ground, Boualem withstands the new regime, using the shop and his personal history as weapons against puritanical forces. Readers are taken into the lush depths of the bookseller's dreams, the memories of his now-empty family life, his passion for literature, then yanked back into the terror and drudgery of his daily routine by the vandalism, assaults, and death warrants that afflict him. From renowned Algerian author Tahar Djaout we inherit a brutal and startling story that reveals how far an ordinary human being will go to maintain hope.

Über den Autor

Tahar Djaout (1954-93) was an Algerian novelist, poet, and journalist, and the author of twelve books, including Les vigiles, winner of the Prix Méditerranée. An outspoken critic of the extremism stirring his nation, he was assassinated by an Islamic fundamentalist group. The manuscript of this novel was found among his papers after his death.

Marjolijn de Jager teaches Dutch and French language and translation at New York University. Wole Soyinka is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the author of more than thirty books. Alek Baylee Toumi is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and the author of the play Madah-Sartre, available in a Bison Books edition.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Foreword

Sermon 1

The Vigilant Brothers

When will the quake happen?

The summer when time stopped

Pilgrim of the new times

The Good whose substance the Almighty established

The nocturnal tribunal

The binding text

A dream shaped like madness

The future is a closed door

The message suppressed

For that we will live, for that we will die...

Therapists of the spirit

One should come from nowhere

The unknown arbiter

Born to have a body

Does death make noise as it moves?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780803215917
ISBN-10:	0803215916
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Djaout, Tahar
Übersetzung:	De Jager, Marjolijn
Hersteller:	Univ of Nebraska Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 123 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Tahar Djaout
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2007
Gewicht:	0,18 kg

Artikel-ID: 121055460