![]() ![]() The essays focus not on the arts, literature or architecture but on the phenomenon that many of history's great despots considered themselves talented writers. Why do tyrants of all people often have poetic aspirations? Where do terror and prose meet? This book contains nine case studies that compare the cultural history of totalitarian regimes. ![]() Ahlam Mosteghanemi is as severe toward the Algerian government as she is toward terrorism. In fact, they appreciate in a different way the importance of being acculturated and the personal status of Algerian women. This article points out the most obvious differences between the position of this Arabophone novelist and the work of many Francophone female writers, who are better known in the Western academic world. ![]() She admires the charismatic leader of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) as much as the unfortunate President Boudiaf (1919-1992), who was disgracefully murdered. Born in 1953, the novelist only considers Algeria's history after the war against France. The main protagonist of the first novel is obviously a fictional double of the Algerian writer Malek Haddad. Nevertheless, the novelist imbues her writing with a reflection on art, literature, and painting mostly from the Western tradition. The main events which they relate are strongly inserted in the well-known history of contemporary Algeria after the country's independence in 1962. This contribution is devoted to two novels written in Arabic (and translated into French) by the Algerian Alham Mosteghanemi.
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