by Albert Memmi · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070362066
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«La statue de sel» is the novel by Albert Memmi published by Folio in paperback (377 pages, in French).
The protagonist, a young Jew from Tunis educated in French culture, discovers that neither his community, nor colonial society, nor France itself fully accepts him. Through intelligence and will, the narrative delves into his consciousness of identity, alienation, and the search for belonging.
The novel was originally published in 1953. This Folio edition appeared in 1972 and includes a preface by Albert Camus.
For readers of French and Maghrebi fiction, and for those seeking novels about identity, discrimination, and belonging.
Libro de bolsillo
Albert Memmi was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian Jewish origins. A prominent intellectual, his nonfiction books and novels explored his complex identity as an anti-imperialist, deeply related to his ardent Zionism. He viewed Zionism as a form of "anti-colonialism."
