LDictatorships are not always tactful, and the regime in place in Algiers did not take any more trouble than that for its retaliatory operation against Kamel Daoud.
A woman, Saâda Arbane, in Algeria, therefore accuses the writer (also a columnist for Point) to have, for his latest novel Houris (Gallimard), winner of the 2024 Goncourt Prize, used his story and especially his medical file through his wife, a psychiatrist, who formerly practiced in Oran.
The point is fundamentally ridiculous: Kamel Daoud knows the subject of the Algerian civil war by heart, having covered it as a journalist, and therefore does not need anyone to find inspiring material. And then it’s a novel!
The handling, above all, is mushy: the lawyer of…
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