by Assia Djebar · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422665717
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«El amor, la fantasía» is the novel by Assia Djebar, published in 1997 by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (294 pages, in Spanish).
It alternates between Algeria in 1830, with Abdelkader's resistance against the French army, and Paris in 1956, where an Algerian woman reflects on the subjugation of Muslim women. The narrative combines war chronicle with social novel, and addresses colonial history and the word as a path to freedom.
Translation by Inmaculada Jiménez Morell. Original title: «L'amour, la fantasia», work originally published in 1985. 22 cm edition with illustrated dust jacket.
For readers of historical fiction and African literature, with an interest in the history of Algeria and in the writing of Algerian women.
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.
