Nedjma

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Nedjma is a novel by Kateb Yacine published in 1956.

Summary

It tells the story of four young men (Mustapha, Lakhdar, Rachid, Mourad) who fell in love with Nedjma, daughter of an Algerian and a French woman, during the french colonization of Algeria. The particularity of this novel is its mythical universe: the Keblout village, a tribe that is described as the root of the Algerian people.

Analysis

References

• Charles BONN,Kateb Yacine, Nedjma, PUF, Literary Studies, 1990. Rate translation