Showing posts with label Sansal (Boualem). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sansal (Boualem). Show all posts
23 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: 2084 : La fin du monde (2015)

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In the Francophone world Boualem Sansal has for some time now been well known for his masterly use of language, for his harsh criticisms ...
7 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Rue Darwin (2011)

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Rue Darwin is the final book in the six-novel Romans 1999–2011 collection, and although it's tempting I'll be making a pause o...
5 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Le Village de l'Allemand, ou Le journal des frères Schiller (2008)

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Le Village de l'Allemand, ou Le journal des frères Schiller is the other novel of Boualem Sansal's which has been translated in...
4 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Harraga (2005)

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Harraga, I believe, is one of only two of Boualem Sansal's novels that have been translated into English. Bizarrely, two English-sp...
1 November 2015

Boualem Sansal: Dis-moi le paradis (2003)

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In my post below on Boualem Sansal's Le Serment des barbares I mentioned his fondness for quoting from books. More than halfway t...

Boualem Sansal: L'Enfant fou de l'arbre creux (2000)

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L’enfant fou de l’arbre creux (lit. The Mad Boy in the Hollow Tree ) is set in the present day in the Algerian prison of Lambèse, where...
30 October 2015

Boualem Sansal: Le Serment des barbares (1999)

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I suspect that a major reason why Gallimard brought out this collection of all of the six novels that Boualem Sansal published before t...