TY - EJOUR A1 - Smati, Maha TI - The bookstore, a space to examine literary commitment in Tahar Djaout’s Le Dernier été de la raison T2 - LiCArC - Littérature et culture arabes contemporaines 2022, n° 10. « Fiction et art au secours du réel : l’engagement des artistes pour une société inclusive et égalitaire » JO - LiCArC (ISSN 2426-8852), 10, 2022 DO - 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-13793-1.p.0073 SN - 2426-8852 SP - 73 EP - 83 AB - In his last, unfinished, novel, the Algerian writer Tahar Djaout sent his writing into a brief cycle of literary engagement with a narrative immersed in the violent unrest of the Algerian “Black Decade.” Holed up in his bookstore, Djaout’s main character rejects the fanaticism imposed by the Vigilant Brothers. Yet Le Dernier été de la raison lends itself to a more complex reading that questions the real effectiveness of literary engagement during a dark period of Algerian history. PY - 2022 DA - 2022/11/02 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - francophone Algerian literature, committed literature, Tahar Djaout, Algerian Civil War, sociocriticism. LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/licarc-2022-litterature-et-culture-arabes-contemporaines-n-10-fiction-et-art-au-secours-du-reel-l-engagement-des-artistes-pour-une-societe-inclusive-et-egalitaire-the-bookstore-a-space-to-examine-literary-commitment-in-tahar-djaout-s-le-der.html Y2 - 2024/06/01 ER -