A Bookshop in Algiers

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Mientras desaloja las pocas pertenencias que quedan allí, Ryad, un joven ingeniero recién llegado de París que no siente el más mínimo interés por la literatura, irá descubriendo —gracias, sobre todo, a los testimonios de los vecinos— la estrecha conexión existente entre la librería y las gentes del lugar. Kağıt bulamıyorsunuz, cepheye çağrılıyorsunuz,bastığınız kitaplar ‘tehlikeli’ görünürse hapis yatıyorsunuz,Cezayir özgürlüğünü savunduğunuz halde Fransız olduğunuz için dükkanınız bombalanıyor,sürgün ediliyorsunuz,köksüz bırakılıyorsunuz.

The reader gets the sense of the struggle to create culture and art in the face of cultural and political barriers (not to mention the financial realities that publishing is, at best, a break-even business). It’s the story of a ‘native boy’ in French Morocco whose father sent him to French school to ‘learn how his enemy thinks. I have recently been pondering what it means to exist within culture, what it means to have an effect upon culture, and what it means to allow culture to affect your outlook. When the schools finally were integrated, the French boys wore white shirts and ties but the Arab boys were made to wear a fez with a purple tassel and an orange jacket – just a made-up getup that had nothing to do with their traditional dress. The contemporary storyline is rather redundant compared to the interesting tale of Edmund (albeit he annoyed me a bit at times in the sense that he doesn't request help or tries to overcome his own lack of business sense).During WWII he was also publishing for the Free French movement in contrary to the laws of Vichy France. Going between the 1930’s-1960’s and present day, we see two different characters and their relationships with books, and how books change them. Bazen öyle uzun hareketsiz kalıyorum ki, yandaki kahvehanenin garsonu meraklanıp her şeyin yolunda olup olmadığını soruyor. Proyecto editorial, estandarte político, refugio para desamparados, testigo de acontecimientos históricos y cuna de escritores como André Gide o Albert Camus, Las Verdaderas Riquezas constituye en sí misma un fascinante personaje que, olvidada ya su época de mayor gloria, está a punto de ser convertida por su nuevo propietario en un puesto dedicado a la venta de buñuelos. I libri diventano e sono il luogo per sfuggire all'orrore, ma anche per vivere nuove realtà e imparare a viaggiare con la mente.

That is something that never gets brought up in history, so this was the first time I have heard about this.

Biri Edmond Charlot, diğeri Charlot’nun kitabevinin kütüphaneye dönüştürülmesinin ardından uzun yıllar o kütüphanenin bekçiliği yapan Abdallah ve son olarak kütüphaneyi boşaltacak, temizleyecek ve yerine açılacak çörekçi için (ne kadar da tanıdık! This blog is dedicated to book reviews, everything related to literature, travel as well as reflections on art and slow living. Dans ce roman, l'auteure nous raconte le parcours passionnant d'Edmond Charlot, libraire, éditeur, bibliothécaire, et "accoucheur" de nouveaux écrivains (dont le célèbre Albert Camus) et ce depuis l'ouverture de sa petite librairie baptisée "Les Vraies Richesses" au 2 bis de la rue Hamani (ex rue Charras) à Alger durant les années 30 du siècle dernier, jusqu'à la disparition (fictive, heureusement) de cette librairie en 2017. Ahora se han decidido a vivir, humildemente, por su propia voluntad, sin escuchar a nadie, y entonces todo se ha iluminado, realmente como cuando uno encuentra las cerillas y la lámpara y la casa se ilumina, y uno sabe por fin dónde dirigir la mano para encontrar las cosas que necesita (. Me enamoré de ese hombre que la creó, de toda la pasión que volcaba en su trabajo y de toda la lucha para que saliera adelante.