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Le 04 janvier 1960, Albert Camus s'en allait un peu dans un
tragique accident de voiture a l'age de 47 ans. Quatre annees
auparavant, il etait l'un des plus jeunes ecrivains a recevoir le
prix Nobel de litterature pour toute son oeuvre. L'enfance pauvre a
Belcourt, la passion du football, le journalisme a Alger
Republicain puis l'exclusion et l'exil par la France de Vichy,
Camus sera force de monter a Paris. Il rejoindra la Resistance et
sera le redacteur en chef de Combat. Romancier, dramaturge,
essayiste, Camus sera aussi acteur et metteur en scene. Apres la
publication de L'Homme revolte, puis la rupture avec son ami
Jean-Paul Sartre, il quittera Combat puis ecrira des articles sur
l'Algerie avant de se taire completement, sans neanmoins cesser
d'agir en silence. Certainement pas existentialiste,
anti-communiste tres tot, il avait ete l'Intellectuel de la periode
45-60 d'apres la liberation, celui dont le nom finira par etre
oppose a celui de Sartre. Si Camus est mort jeune, il aura vecu
pleinement sa courte vie; et s'il est encore difficile de le
categoriser, il reste encore d'actualite, souleve souvent des
passions, ne laissant jamais indifferent. Peut-on parler d'un
heritage camusien ? Que reste-t-il de son oeuvre en Amerique ? Afin
de ne pas oublier cet etranger si familier, pour le cinquantenaire
de la mort de Camus, le Bureau du Doyen des Etudes Internationales
et le Centre d'Etudes Europeennes de l'Universite du
Wisconsin-Madison ont organise du 22 au 24 avril 2010, un symposium
Albert Camus, 50 ans apres, autour des trois grands themes
suivants: Camus et l'Algerie, Camus et l'exil, Camus et le public.
Une quinzaine d'universitaires, de chercheurs, et de professeurs,
d'Algerie, de France, du Canada et des Etats-Unis, etaient presents
a ces journees dont nous publions les Actes dans cet ouvrage.
L'objectif de ce second colloque etait de creer un debat autour de
Camus et de sa vision, souvent prophetique, relire ses ecrits
litteraires et politiques et voir dans quelle mesure son oeuvre
pacifiste, peut etre une source d'inspiration dans les luttes pour
la liberte et la democratie, une alternative a la violence et a la
terreur qui demeurent aujourd'hui encore, helas tres actuelles.
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The Last Summer of Reason (Paperback)
Tahar Djaout; Translated by Marjolijn de Jager; Introduction by Alek Baylee Toumi; Foreword by Wole Soyinka
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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. story
that reveals how far an ordinary human being will go to maintain
hope. Tahar Djaout (1954-93) was an Algerian novelist, poet, and
journalist, and the author of twelve books, including Les vigiles,
winner of the Prix Mediterranee. by an Islamic fundamentalist
group. The manuscript of this novel was found among his papers
after his death.
"Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in "No
Exit," The fantastic tragicomedy "Madah-Sartre" brings him back
from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that
statement. As the story begins, Sartre and his consort in intellect
and love, Simone de Beauvoir, are on their way to the funeral of
Tahar Djaout, an Algerian poet and journalist slain in 1993. En
route they are kidnapped by Islamic terrorists and ordered to
convert . . . or die. Since they are already dead, fearless Sartre
gives the terrorists a chance to convince him with reason. What
follows is, as James D. Le Sueur writes in his introduction, "one
of the most imaginative and provocative plays of our era." Sartre,
one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, finds
himself in an absurd yet deadly real debate with armed fanatics
about terrorism, religion, intellectuals, democracy, women's
rights, and secularism, trying to bring his opponents back to their
senses in an encounter as disturbing as it is compelling.
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