Nedjma is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is the symbol of Algeria. Kateb has crafted a novel that is the saga of the founding ancestors of Algeria through the conquest of Numidia by the Romans, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, and French colonial conquest. Nedjma is symbolic of the rich and sometimes bloody past of Algeria, of its passions, of its tenderness; it is the epic story of a human quest for freedom and happiness.

Nedjma (C A R A F BOOKS)

Literature & Fiction

Yacine, Kateb

Literary

Univ of Virginia Pr

A rogue philosopher, named Puff of Smoke, schemes to outwit the Sultan of his North African kingdom by selling sand as intelligence powder and claiming to have a donkey that excretes gold coins. From Algeria. 1 act. 1 set. 1f, 14m, chorus and extras

Intelligence Powder (Ubu Repertory Theater Publications,)

Dramas & Plays

UBU Repertory Theater

Polygone Etoile

Points French

Nedjma

Les violences de leur patron, la suspicion et les insultes des Blancs sont leur lot quotidien. Dans l'Algérie française, quatre descendants berbères servent comme manœuvres sur des chantiers ; quand la nuit tombe, ils laissent parler leur révolte et s'en prennent aux colons. Seule Nedjma, fascinante métisse née de leur terre adorée et de cette France ingrate et dominatrice, parvient à les apaiser. " N'y a-t-il que le crime pour assassiner l'injustice ? " Poète, romancier, journaliste et militant pour l'indépendance de l'Algérie, son thème de prédilection, Kateb Yacine (1929-1989) est notamment l'auteur de L'Homme aux sandales de caoutchouc, Le Cercle des représailles et Le Polygone étoilé, tous trois disponibles en Points. " Nedjma est sans conteste le texte fondamental de la littérature algérienne de langue française. " Tahar Djalout Préface de Gilles Carpentier

Contemporary

POINTS

Boucherie de l'espérance. Oeuvres théâtrales

Genre Fiction

SEUIL

Nedschma. Roman.

Suhrkamp

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