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Article: Boucherie de l'esperance: CEuvres theatrales.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
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- September 22, 2000
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Kateb Yacine. Boucherie de l'esperance: CEuvres theatrales. Paris. Seuil. 1999. 571 pages. 140 F. ISBN 2-02-033905-6.
BOUCHERIE DE L'ESPERANCE, a collection of four formerly unpublished plays written by Kateb Yacine after he returned to Algeria in 1971, belies the often-expressed notion that the years 1970-87 constituted a long period of silence in his work. During this time, Yacine collaborated ceaselessly with his troupe of actors to create a vibrant, militant form of popular theater, abandoning French in favor of dialectal Arabic in order to communicate directly with the people. Composed of a series of tableaux punctuated with songs and choral passages, all ...
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... ... literature. Witness the prizes once again: in January 1987 the (French) National Prize for Letters went to Dib's compatriot Kateb Yacine, whose first novel, Nedjma, published in Paris in the middle of the Algerian War, remains the touchstone of French ...
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