Academica Press Announces Publication of The Algerian Destiny of Albert Camus, 1940 - 1962 by Mohamed Maougal and Aicha Kassoul
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Academica Press Announces Publication of The Algerian Destiny of Albert Camus, 1940 - 1962 by Mohamed Maougal and Aicha Kassoul
Academica announces release of new monograph on Albert Camus, Nobel Prize winner and French-Algerian writer and playwright. First major study of Camus by Algerian scholars in English.
Palo Alto, CA — Academica Press, LLC proudly announces the release of a new publication The Algerian Destiny of Albert Camus (ISBN 193090158-5) by Professors Mohamed Maougal and Aitcha Kassoul. The authors both teach at the School of French, University of Algiers. In the words of their translator, Dr Philip Beitchman (NYU) they have “…achieved the rare feat of introducing a Camus who viewed himself as an Algerian and agonized over the fate of his beloved country. Albert Camus want a divers multicultural, multiconfessional state…a new California he called it…but was faced with the destruction of the world he knew in Algiers and the triumph of extremists.”
Camus in these pages chides his pieds-noirs compatriots on their treatment of the Muslim majority and argues that a secular Mediterranean state is possible for all Algerians.
“This new work is a worthy addition to our list of monographs focussing on the development of an artist and the fate of his society,” remarked Robert Redfern-West, Academica Press director. ” I have worked for almost five years to obtain the manuscript and secure the best possible translator for it. I am very happy that this study is finally available to scholars and libraries.”
Despite the difficult conditions in Algeria over the last decade the authors have succeeded in seeing their work in print in English.