by Assia Djebar · Heyne · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9783453061194
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«Die Ungeduldigen» is the novel by Assia Djebar, published by Heyne in paperback (220 pages, in German).
Set in Algeria in 1958, the novel follows a nonconformist student trying to make her way between Maghreb tradition and the desire for emancipation. Her journey, which takes her to Paris and includes a love story, reflects a woman's struggle for freedom and self-determination in a conservative Islamic society.
Originally published in 1958 as «Les impatients», this German edition uses the translation by Wilhelm Maria Lüsberg and belongs to the Heyne Allgemeine Reihe series (no. 8616).
For readers of social and feminist fiction, interested in women's emancipation and the Maghreb from a historical perspective.
Fatima-Zohra Imalayen, known by her pen name Assia Djebar, was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker. Most of her works deal with obstacles faced by women, and she is noted for her feminist stance. She is "frequently associated with women's writing movements, her novels are clearly focused on the creation of a genealogy of Algerian women, and her political stance is virulently anti-patriarchal as much as it is anti-colonial." Djebar is considered to be one of North Africa's pre-eminent and most influential writers. She was elected to the Académie Française on 16 June 2005, the first writer from the Maghreb to achieve such recognition. For the entire body of her work she was awarded the 1996 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. She was often named as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
