Tlemcen or Places of Writing

by Mohammed Dib

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Translated from the French by Guy Bennett. TLEMCEN OR PLACES OF WRITING is an unusual, hybrid work: part memoir of the author's coming of age and coming to writing in his native Algeria, and part meditation on the nature of writing itself as well as on the task and responsibility of the writer. The text is complimented by some fifty photographs taken by the author in the Tlemcen of his youth, images of a past that has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984528970
• ISBN13: 9780984528974
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Otis Books Seismicity Editions
• Length: 120 Pages