Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Albert Memmi (Dec. 15, 1920 - May 22, 2020)


The obituary of Albert Memmi, the French-Tunisian-Jewish writer, was published in today's New York Times (link):

"Mr. Memmi was consumed by alienation, his own especially. He supported Tunisia’s independence, but once that was achieved, he left the fledgling Muslim state and spent the next two-thirds of his life in France in self-imposed exile. Even so, he once said that his homeland was not the French nation, but the French language."

I have read at least one of his autobiographical novels, and I wonder why I never included him in this list as I created it on this blog.

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