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Article: Le printemps n'en sera que plus beau.
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Although written in the midseventies but not published until 1986 in Algeria, Le printemps n'en sera que plus beau may be considered as the blueprint for Rachid Mimouni's later novels, especially Tombeza (1984), L'honneur de la tribu (1989), and Une peine a vivre (1991). The reader finds adumbrated here many of Mimouni's themes, such as the quest for identity in the aftermath of the Algerian war of liberation and the reexamination of official History in order to give a better understanding of the entire colonial relationship and situations. More important, we discover, albeit with less skill and success than in his later, more mature novels, Mimouni's distinctive style, ...