Word: algerianness
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...book has several elements that recur in The Stranger: the sun-drenched Algerian setting, a restless clerk named Mersault whose mother dies, a restaurant keeper named Celeste. This Mersault, more open and spontaneous than in The Stranger, sees himself as a Sisyphus whose particular boulder is office work-"those eight hours a day other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive...
...Hadjar symbolizes Boumedienne's determination to make a long-range investment in heavy industry rather than light industry, which could produce more jobs more quickly. The justification is that, having broken a French colonial economy tied to agriculture, Boumedienne's Sorbonne-trained Algerian technocrats do not want to re-create what they haughtily dismiss as "a 19th century economy...
...situations. It is almost as if he needed them to fulfill a larger need for his incessant self-examinations, which often turn out to be self-deprecations. In recalling his youthful days as an expatriate in Paris, Baldwin man ages to equate his attitude toward persecuted Algerians with the attitude of white Americans toward their black countrymen. His feeling of kinship with the Algerian cause was accompanied by the troubling fact that his American passport granted him special privileges...
...Office of War Information. In 1945 he returned to Paris and led the postwar growth of both France-Soir and Elle, the women's fashion magazine. Though Lazareffs outspoken support of Charles de Gaulle resulted in the bombing of his home and newspaper offices during the Algerian crisis, his aggressive management of France-Soir earned him the title "Napoleon of journalists"-and a daily circulation...
...trial it is, not simply of France's conduct of the war, but of French political life. The movie opens with an apparently mindless act of terrorism that occurred one day in 1954. A country bus is machine-gunned by Algerian rebels on a mountain road, and several Algerians, both French and Moslem, are killed. Though few realize it, the war has begun. The film goes on to trace the growth of Algerian nationalism, led for the most part by bemedaled Moslem veterans of World War II who fought with the Free French and came home to find that...