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Dans ce livre initialement publié en 1985 chez Grasset dans l’emblématique collection « Ce que je crois », le grand intellectuel franco-tunisien Albert Memmi, auteur du célèbre Portrait du colonisé plonge au cœur des sujets les plus fondamentaux de la condition humaine : l’identité, le travail, la famille, l’amour, la politique, la religion, l’art.
Plutôt qu’un traité méthodique, l’ouvrage est une méditation libre, qui explore les idéaux et les hypothèses formant la vision du monde de l’auteur. Penseur du postcolonialisme, Albert Memmi y expose ses convictions sur les questions de racisme et d’exclusion, sur les tensions culturelles et sociales d’un monde structuré par les inégalités. Plus que jamais d’actualité, il s’interroge sur la question de l’identité et de la validité du moi comme unicité.
Essai, sans doute, et important, mais aussi mémoire intime, où Albert Memmi parsème son texte d’évocations nostalgiques et de souvenirs vivaces sur sa Tunisie natale. Une autobiographie intellectuelle majeure, par l’une des grandes voix de la littérature que l’on n’appelait pas encore postcoloniale.
Plutôt qu’un traité méthodique, l’ouvrage est une méditation libre, qui explore les idéaux et les hypothèses formant la vision du monde de l’auteur. Penseur du postcolonialisme, Albert Memmi y expose ses convictions sur les questions de racisme et d’exclusion, sur les tensions culturelles et sociales d’un monde structuré par les inégalités. Plus que jamais d’actualité, il s’interroge sur la question de l’identité et de la validité du moi comme unicité.
Essai, sans doute, et important, mais aussi mémoire intime, où Albert Memmi parsème son texte d’évocations nostalgiques et de souvenirs vivaces sur sa Tunisie natale. Une autobiographie intellectuelle majeure, par l’une des grandes voix de la littérature que l’on n’appelait pas encore postcoloniale.
219 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 24, 2024
About the author
Albert Memmi
67 books138 followersTunisian Jewish writer and essayist who migrated to France.
Born in Tunisia under French protectorate, from a Tunisian Jewish mother, Marguerite Sarfati, and a Tunisian-Italian Jewish father, François Memmi, he speaks French and Tunisian-Judeo-Arabic. He claims to be of Berber ancestry. He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West.
His best-known nonfiction work is "The Colonizer and the Colonized", about the interdependent relationship of the two groups. It was published in 1957, a time when many national liberation movements were active. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the preface. The work is often read in conjunction with Frantz Fanon's "Les damnés de la Terre" ("The Wretched of the Earth") and "Peau noire, masques blancs" ("Black Skin, White Masks") and Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism." In October 2006, Memmi's follow-up to this work, titled "Decolonization and the Decolonized," was published. In this book, Memmi suggests that in the wake of global decolonization, the suffering of former colonies cannot be attributed to the former colonizers, but to the corrupt leaders and governments that control these states.
Born in Tunisia under French protectorate, from a Tunisian Jewish mother, Marguerite Sarfati, and a Tunisian-Italian Jewish father, François Memmi, he speaks French and Tunisian-Judeo-Arabic. He claims to be of Berber ancestry. He was educated in French primary schools, and continued on to the Carnot high school in Tunis, the University of Algiers where he studied philosophy, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris. Albert Memmi found himself at the crossroads of three cultures, and based his work on the difficulty of finding a balance between the East and the West.
His best-known nonfiction work is "The Colonizer and the Colonized", about the interdependent relationship of the two groups. It was published in 1957, a time when many national liberation movements were active. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the preface. The work is often read in conjunction with Frantz Fanon's "Les damnés de la Terre" ("The Wretched of the Earth") and "Peau noire, masques blancs" ("Black Skin, White Masks") and Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism." In October 2006, Memmi's follow-up to this work, titled "Decolonization and the Decolonized," was published. In this book, Memmi suggests that in the wake of global decolonization, the suffering of former colonies cannot be attributed to the former colonizers, but to the corrupt leaders and governments that control these states.
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