The year of passages / Reda Bensmaia ; translated and with an afterword by Tom Conley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bensmaïa, Réda.

Series:

Theory out of bounds ; v. 5.

Theory out of bounds ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algerians--Travel--Foreign countries--Fiction.

Algerians.

Algeria--Intellectual life--20th century--Fiction.

Algeria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, Bensmaïa's knowledge of the history, the literature, and the philosophical ideas of our times underlies the novel without intruding into it directly.

Contents:

The Year of Passages; ONE; TWO; Afterword: A Novel Machine

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-8569-X

OCLC:

476096229