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The Wound
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Series: French Voices
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ISBN10: 0803239874
ISBN13: 9780803239876
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Feb 1 2015
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780803239876
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Feb 1 2015
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.51
Language: English
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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