L'opium et le bâton is a 1965 novel by Algerian writer Mouloud Mammeri, who was born in Algeria and lived in Algeria, Morocco, and France. The novel was republished in Paris, in 1992, by Éditions La Découverte (ISBN 2-7071-2086-3. It is a realistic novel describing events of the Algerian War.
Ahmed Rachedi directed a movie based on the book, which was released in 1971.
Critical studies
- Samson, Hervé (2013). Mouloud Mammeri: l'opium et le bâton. Étude critique. Paris: Honoré Champion.
References
- Aoudjit, Abdelkader (2010). The Algerian Novel and Colonial Discourse: Witnessing to a Différend. Francophone cultures and literatures. Vol. 58. Peter Lang. pp. 73–77, 153–54. ISBN 9781433110740.
- Minel, Emmanuel (2014-06-12). "Rev. of Samson, Hervé. Mouloud Mammeri: l'opium et le bâton. Étude critique". Kritikon Litterarum. 41 (1/2). doi:10.1515/kl-2014-0011. S2CID 161419560.
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