The Pillar of Salt

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Originally published in 1953 in English in 1955 , The Pillar of Salt the semi autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia To gain access to privileged French society, he must reject his many identities Jew, Arab, and African But, on the eve of World War II, he is forced to come to terms with his loyalties and his past. Free Read [ The Pillar of Salt ] Author [ Albert Memmi ] – kino-fada.fr Every day that I picked this up, I thought how fortunate I am to be part of the Goodreads community Otherwise, I likely would never have known about this book, nor availed myself of the opportunity of reading it It isn t long enough for it to have taken nearly a week to finish I found myself time challenged several days and, though that should not be an excuse, time somehow has a way of escaping despite my best intentions.The description of this tells us it is a coming of age story The last Every day that I picked this up, I thought how fortunate I am to be part of the Goodreads community Otherwise, I likely would never have known about this book, nor availed myself of the opportunity of reading it It isn t long enough for it to have taken nearly a week to finish I found myself time challenged several days and, though that should not be an excuse, time somehow has a way of escaping despite my best intentions.The description of this tells us it is a coming of age story The last sentence is accurate This is an unusual man s coming of age story and a document about a community that has now all but disappeared. I d like to emphasize the word unusual, because this is anything but what one might expect of a coming of age story It is so muchthan that, though, because the second part of that sentence is what makes this of enduring interest What wou...This is a well written novel about the life of a Jewish Tunisian boy, growing up in the years leading up to WW2 It is generally considered to be autobiographical, and though the narrator s name is not the author s, it readslike a memoir than a novel it records Alexandre s memories and thoughts about his life, but has few if any traditional scenes and very little dialogue or physical description the detail is primarily emotional And yet, the specific incidents that make up the narrator This is a well written novel about the life of a Jewish Tunisian boy, growing up in the years leading up to WW2 It is generally considered to be autobiographical, and though the narrator s name is not the author s, it readslike a memoir than a novel it records Alexandre s memories and thoughts about his life, but has few if ...Pr sent comme un r cit fictionnalis , il s agit des m moires d un jeune juif tunisien du ghetto.Un tr s beau r cit A lire absolument.This is a remarkable novel although I don t know that I would call it a novel, it readslike a memoir and many scholars argue that it is semi autobiographical.In short, Memmi s character, Alexandre Benillouche, is a Tunisian Jew raised in poverty Due to his academic excellence, he gained a scholarship to high school something that few Jews and Arabs or, in Memmi s words, Muslims had access to As such, he was socialized into Western culture and, in many ways, middle class society H This is a remarkable novel although I don t know that I would call it a novel, it readslike a memoir and many scholars argue that it is semi autobiographical.In short...Ce roman, pr fac par Camus, est consid r comme un classique de la litt rature maghr bine Son criture, sobre, limpide, est d monstrative et presque didactique Ses th mes sont l interrogation sur l identit et les rapports du moi avec sa communaut et les autres groupes qui cohabitent Tunis avant et pendant la seconde guerre mondiale Sa structure est celle du roman autobiographique le h ros, Alexandre Mordekha Benillouche, Juif tunisois pauvre, d couvre tour tour l cole, la sexualit Ce roman, pr fac par Camus, est consid r comme un classique de la litt rature maghr bine Son criture, sobre, limpide, est d monstrative et presque didactique Ses th mes sont l interrogation sur l identit et les rapports du moi avec sa communaut et les autres groupes qui cohabitent Tunis avant et pendant la seconde guerre mondiale Sa structure est celle du roman autobiographique le h ros, Alexandre Mordekha Benillouche, Juif tunisois pauvre, d couvre tour tour l cole, la sexualit , la peur, la solidarit Apparent un roman ...Very honest critique and an account of Mordekhai s turbulent life and murky waters that are his beliefs and his civilisation He laid himself bare for scrutiny and judgement It read like a biography.Le jeune homme dont l histoire est cont e ici ne parvient se d finir qu en additionnant aux refus que les autres font de lui les refus que lui m me oppose au monde Il est juif de m re berb re, ce qui ne simplifie rien et sujet tunisien, c est dire sujet du bey de Tunis Cependant, il n est pas r ellement tunisien, le premier pogrome o les Arabes massacrent les juifs le lui d montre Sa culture est fran aise et, de toute sa classe, il est le seul entendre Racine comme il faut Cependant Le jeune homme dont l histoire est cont e ici ne parvient se d finir qu en additio...The most uncomfortable coming of age story I ve ever read, written in the early 1950s by Albert Memi,a Tunisian Arab Jew, about a working class kid called Alexandre Mordakhai Benillouche growing up in the no man s land between the Jewish ghetto and the Jewish middle class in Tunis Pretty incredible,honest, disturbing, and has one of the most memorable and hard to like impossible to hate narrators I ve ever come across As a study of the sheer psychological weight of social mobility in a mino The most uncomfortable coming of age story I ve ever read, written in the early 1950s by Albert Memi,a...Gostei de ter uma perspectiva diferente da segunda guerra mundial, j que o cen rio a Tun sia Tamb m, mal comparando, bem mais interessante que O Castelo Branco para mostrar o contraponto Oriente Ocidente.Inspired in his own story, Memmi describes the character s childhood in poverty, his years at school, the academic achievements that led him to a privileged high school, and his struggle to become an intellectual and feel he belongs to western culture Despite his efforts, the character find no place, neither in western, neither in his own culture, for his efforts to become a western intellectual led him too far from his roots.It s a powerful piece about identity in the fastly changing world bef Inspired in his own story, Memmi describes the character s childhood in poverty, his years at school, the...

The Pillar of Salt
  • English
  • 20 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • 0807083275
  • Albert Memmi
  • The Pillar of Salt