by Assia Djebar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226077486
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«Amour, la fantasia» is the historical novel by Assia Djebar published by Albin Michel in paperback (257 pages, in French).
The novel interweaves Algeria's collective memory with the author's intimate gaze: the father, a French teacher, the mother, the cousins and the cloistered women, whose cry and love accompany the entire narrative. It alternates between third and first person, moving from the distant past to the recent past.
The work was originally published in 1985; this edition is from 1994. On the cover, the title appears as «L'amour, la fantasia», with the subtitle «roman».
For readers of historical fiction, African literature and studies on the memory of women in the Maghreb.
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
