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This slender book is thick with information, reflexion, and humanity. It is about a man. It is about a country. It is about a very wide panorama of contemporary history. It is about good and evil, and how difficult it is to make a choice. How violence permeates our lives, and how more violence may be needed to stop it, is one way to describe this story. The river of violence that can carry away everything in its flood can only be tamed by patient engineering, consistent investment, and erecting solid dams. If that effort is not made, the erratic river may rise again after a storm, and destroy the land it should fertilise. Ours are violent times.
Nous sommes dans ce monde à la fois africain et méditerranéen où le conteur, aède ou griot, est au centre de l’information, du divertissement, et de la réflexion. Ceci est un conte, qui n’est pas sans rappeler les fabliaux du Moyen-Age, l’histoire d’un (...)
2019
This slender book is thick with information, reflexion, and humanity. It is about a man. It is about a country. It is about a very wide panorama of contemporary history. It is about good and evil, and how difficult it is to make a choice. How violence (...)
2019
Dans un pays livré à la barbarie d’hommes sans foi ni loi, Tahar fait figure d’exemple à suivre pour la résistance. Chômeur, il crut à un avenir meilleur en écoutant les promesses des obscurantistes qui n’avait d’autre but que la destruction. Enrôlé (...)
2017