The Fondation des Trois Cultures de la Méditerranée, in collaboration with the publishing house Cabaret Voltaire, continues its reading club. " Three with books " en lisant l'œuvre L'escargot entêté by the Algerian writer, poet, romancer, playwright and literary critic Rachid Boudjedra, who takes us back to his country. A political fable in which Boudjedra humourously criticises the regime and the bureaucratic system in Algeria, aiming to restrict and limit freedoms, thus creating a suffocating reality in which escape is impossible.
Rachid Boudjedra (Ain Beida, Algeria, 1941)
A doctorate in philosophy from the Sorbonne University in 1965, this exceptional intellectual suffered exile for his defence of human rights. He was a member of the Front de libération nationale, and was its representative in Spain. His first novel The repudiation (1969), quatorze ans interdit dans son pays, suivie inter alia du roman Ideal topography for a characterised aggression (1975), L'escargot entêté (1977), The disorder of things (1991), Timimoun (1994) and l'Hôtel Saint Georges (2007), et les deux recueils de poèmes Pour ne plus rêver (1965) and Cinq Fragments du désert (2007).
Boudjedra wrote in French until 1982 when he turned to Arab literature. His always critical stance on the political, social, literary and human situation in Algeria earned him, in addition to exile, the condemnation of death by Islamists. He is currently considered one of the most important writers and poets in the Maghreb.
PROGRAMMATION DE LECTURE
Du 3 au 19 février, 2015
Prêt du livre
Le mardi, 24 février 2015 à 18h00
Reading club session. Analysis of the work and exchange of ideas.
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