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Of the Farm is a short novel that can surely constitute a good introduction to the style and fictional world of John Updike, one of the major American writers whose works have covered the second half of the 20th century, depicting the great transformations...

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Death in the Andes (published in 1993) is the second novel by Mario Vargas LIosa that I have read, and it’s the book which made me aware of the talent and the importance of this Peruvian writer in world literature where he distinguished himself as one...

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Compassion is a necessary feeling in society, especially to assist the needy, or people in precarious situation, the victims of hazards of life, of diseases, etc. However, compassion should not become the motor of society and its permanent way of working,...

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I’m glad that I have discovered Carlos Fuentes thought a relatively recent book: Happy Families (2006) because besides urging me to discover his previous great works, this collection of short stories enabled me to discover a less known aspect of this...

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Among the various Algerian artists who distinguished themselves in fusion style two famous name often come to minds: the band Gnawa Diffusion and Rachid Taha. The first word I associate with Rachid Taha is “audacious”. This term may sound overused but...

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Maybe some of you know who Jane Russel is, others might have heard her name snapping in a very Anglo-Saxon and somehow obsolete fashion, like the vestige of an era of which the charm remains, provided that it still echoed in the present. Nonetheless,...

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Many things have been said and comments and analyses still go on about the great English classic novel of the 19th century Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. After my reading this novel twice (first in French then in English) and watching the successful...

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During the last sacred month of fasting (Ramadan) an old memory going back to middle-school occurred to me. At a course of Islamic education, the female teacher approached the topic of usury (Riba) and bank loan with interests. My purpose here is not...

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I got down, recently, to rediscover better the literary works of Rachid Mimouni, a major figure of Algerian literature, whose career began at a critical period of our country’s political life and cultural activity, namely the end of the 1970’s and the...

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Sinclair Lewis is the first American writer who won the Nobel Prize of literature and the first who had reached significant notoriety in the 20th century, whether in terms of books sells or recognition from the specialized critics. Yet, when it comes...

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