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THE WOUND
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| By: |
Laurent Mauvignier, Nick Flynn (Foreword), David Ball (Trans) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803239874 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803239876 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 November, 2014 |
| Series: |
French Voices |
| Pages: |
242 |
| Description: |
"Where is your wound?" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realise that for many the wound lies four decades back in "the Events" that people have tried not to talk about ever since: the Algerian War. |
| Synopsis: |
"Where is your wound?" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound. By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in "the Events" that people have tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian War. Chronicling the lives of two cousins-Bernard and Rabut-both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting effects this event had on the men who were involved. Through the fragments of their stories we see the whole history of the war: its atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched-and France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that wounded men may even become the wound itself. |
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US |
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University of Nebraska Press |
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