It tells the story of four young men mustapha, lakhdar, rachid, mourad who fall in love with nedjma, daughter of an algerian and a french woman, during the french colonization of algeria. Kateb yacine scenarise le flux secret, incontrole et incontrolable par lhistoire objective. Son pere avait une double culture, francaise et musulmane. Comme lecrivait kateb yacine, le francais est notre butin. Entre exils, errances et migrations openedition journals. Quelques remarques sur le mythe des ancetres chez kateb. Dans nedjma ou le legendaire cotoie le reel, son ecriture polyphonique fait tourbillonner les. Abdoun, le personnage du negre dans nedjma et le polygone etoil. Kateb was educated in frenchcolonial schools until 1945, when the bloody suppression of a popular uprising at setif both ended his education and provided him with material that would. Kateb yacine is the father of three, children hans.
Le 8 mai 1945 il na pas encore 16 ans, il participe aux soulevements populaires du constantinois pour lindependance. Nedjma in arabo stella, nome di donna e il titolo del primo e piu celebre romanzo, in francese, dello scrittore algerino kateb yacine. Kateb yacine was born on august 6, 1929 in constantine, french algeria, now algeria. Ils ne peuvent ecrire pour leurs compatriotes, ils ecrivent alors pour l. Kateb yacine, algerian poet, novelist, and playwright, one of north africas most respected literary figures. The principal task of kateb yacines famous novel nedjma is to engender a consciousness of the deplorable conditions of algerians during the french occupation and to open up the possibility of a new, modern nation in which algerians are masters of their own destiny.
Moimeme, je le croyais, jusquau jour ou je me suis perdu en kabylie. Closely related to the theme of national independence are two other themes. Oct 30, 2012 kateb yacine, jai vu letoile qui na brille quune fois, dans le monde, paris, 4 avril 1984. Ces auteurs possedent deux langues qui sont loin d.
In 1945 he moved to paris and afterward traveled in europe and asia. Nedjma is a novel by kateb yacine published in 1956. Kateb yacine entstammte einer altehrwurdigen, gebildeten familie. Kateb has crafted a novel that is the saga of the founding ancestors of algeria through the conquest of numidia by the romans, the. Pubblicato nel 1956, in piena guerra dalgeria, trovo subito vasta eco in francia e allestero, e venne tradotto in numerose lingue.
The work is notable for its carefully constructed, multilevel plot. Et, encore une fois, il voit le drame national devenir familial. Kateb yacine, leternel perturbateur, par marina da silva le. Charles bonn, kateb yacine, nedjma, puf, etudes litteraires, 1990 liens externes. Il a ete publie en 1956 aux editions du seuil a paris. Roman bibliothek suhrkamp kateb yacine, walter maria guggenheimer isbn. Nedjma is the central figure of this disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, nedjma is the symbol of algeria.