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- catalog abstract "Quelque part, dans le Sud de la France, un homme remonte le cours du fleuve comme on remonte le cours de sa vie, dans l'imminence de la mort. Reviennent les couleurs et les mots de "là-bas", ceux de la terre natale, sur l'"autre rive" de la Méditerranée. Mais l'exil c'est, au moment suprême, l'absence de ces rites immémoriaux qui accompagnent "le passage" et que, dans le livre, trois sœurs mystérieuses et fatales comme les Parques, dispensent à ceux qui sont restés près de la grande maison. Le silence des rives est d'abord une très belle parabole sur l'exil et la mémoire. Ni noms, ni prénoms n'en singularisent les personnages : ils sont l'"homme", l'"enfant", la "mère", les "trois sœurs". -- Back cover. Silence on the Shores depicts the final day in the life of a Maghrebian immigrant in France. Having crossed the Mediterranean to "the other shore" as a young man to find work, he ultimately remained in France, married a French woman, and broke the promise he made to his mother to return home one day. Aware that death is drawing close, he fears experiencing the ultimate form of exile: dying alone, with no fellow Muslim at his side to whisper the customary prayer for the dead in his ear. Leila Sebbar's style conveys the simplicity of everyday life on both shores of the Mediterranean. Interweaving several monologues, she examines multiple facets of exile and the role of memory in easing its pain.".
- catalog alternative "Silence des rives : roman".
- catalog contributor b4962503.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description "Quelque part, dans le Sud de la France, un homme remonte le cours du fleuve comme on remonte le cours de sa vie, dans l'imminence de la mort. Reviennent les couleurs et les mots de "là-bas", ceux de la terre natale, sur l'"autre rive" de la Méditerranée. Mais l'exil c'est, au moment suprême, l'absence de ces rites immémoriaux qui accompagnent "le passage" et que, dans le livre, trois sœurs mystérieuses et fatales comme les Parques, dispensent à ceux qui sont restés près de la grande maison. Le silence des rives est d'abord une très belle parabole sur l'exil et la mémoire. Ni noms, ni prénoms n'en singularisent les personnages : ils sont l'"homme", l'"enfant", la "mère", les "trois sœurs". -- Back cover.".
- catalog description "Silence on the Shores depicts the final day in the life of a Maghrebian immigrant in France. Having crossed the Mediterranean to "the other shore" as a young man to find work, he ultimately remained in France, married a French woman, and broke the promise he made to his mother to return home one day. Aware that death is drawing close, he fears experiencing the ultimate form of exile: dying alone, with no fellow Muslim at his side to whisper the customary prayer for the dead in his ear. Leila Sebbar's style conveys the simplicity of everyday life on both shores of the Mediterranean. Interweaving several monologues, she examines multiple facets of exile and the role of memory in easing its pain.".
- catalog extent "143 p. ; 23 cm.".
- catalog identifier "2234025532".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "fre".
- catalog publisher "[Paris] : Stock,".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog subject "Algerians France Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Death Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Ethnopsychology Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Exiles Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Immigrants France Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Mothers and sons Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PQ2679.E244 S57 1993".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction.".
- catalog subject "Role conflict Fiction.".
- catalog title "Le silence des rives / Leïla Sebbar.".
- catalog title "Silence des rives : roman".
- catalog type "text".