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Algerian Chronicles By Albert Camus Harvard University Press, 2013, 212 pp.

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Algerian Chronicles By Albert Camus Harvard University Press, 2013, 212 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2019

Marie-Pierre Ulloa*
Affiliation:
Stanford Universitympulloa@stanford.edu

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References

1 National Liberation Front, the Algerian independentist organization. Camus also condemned the Melouza massacre: in May 1957, the FLN killed more than 300 villagers in Melouza on the pretext that they were supporters of the rival organization MNA, National Algerian Movement (28).

2 He does not forget the religious minorities, notably the Jewish populations “caught for years between French Anti-Semitism and Arab distrust” (127).

3 Camus, Albert, Le Premier homme (Paris: Gallimard, 1994)Google Scholar.

4 As Arthur Goldhammer states in the translator’s note: “To mimic the French structure slavishly is to betray the spirit of the text” (XI).

5 He writes to Aziz Kessous in 1955: “Algeria is where I hurt at this moment, as others feel pain in their lungs.” (113) and Camus had turberculosis.

6 Saviano, Roberto, Gomorra (Milan: Mondadori, 2006)Google Scholar.

7 Camus, Albert, Lo Straniero, trans. Perroni, Sergio Claudio (Milan: Bompania, 2015)Google Scholar.