Un Été africain

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Un Été africain (An African Summer) is a 1959 novel by Algerian writer Mohammed Dib. This novel is noted for retaining Dib's earlier realistic style, depicting a people in revolt. It is part of a broader body of work where Dib explored themes of French colonial repression, the search for Algerian identity, the war for independence, and the struggles of Algerian emigrant workers. Dib, an influential Algerian novelist, poet, and playwright, is known for his early trilogy on Algeria, which chronicled the nation's awakening to self-consciousness and the fight for independence.1

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Mohammed Dib
Dib’s later novels, apart from Un Été africain (1959; “An African Summer”), which retains the realistic mode of expression in his description of a people in revolt, are marked by the use of symbol, myth, allegory, and fantasy to portray the French colonial repression of the Algerian people, the search…
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Dib’s later novels, apart from Un Été africain (1959; “An African Summer”), which retains the realistic mode of expression in his description of a people in revolt, are marked by the use of symbol, myth, allegory, and fantasy to portray the French colonial repression of the Algerian people, the search…
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