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A Bookshop in Algiers: Kaouther Adimi

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Modern Cezayir Edebiyatından okuduğum ilk kitap sanırım Zenginliklerimiz. Arka kapak yazısı ilgimi çektiği için (Albert Camus ve Antoine de Saint Exupery dahil pek çok ünlü yazarın kariyerine yön vermiş yayıncı ve editör Edmond Charlot’nun yayıncılık serüveni) uzun zamandır okuma listemdeydi ancak fiyatını çok pahalı bulduğumdan satın almak istememiştim. Şimdi bütün kitap fiyatları aşırı arttığı için alayım bari, dedim. Ama bu fiyat politikasına devam ederse Delidolu’dan gerçekten merakla beklediğim bir şey çıkmadığı sürece herhangi bir şey almayı düşünmüyorum. Pequeñas riquezas es una librería que abre sus puertas a principios del siglo XX con mucha ilusión y con muchas ideas en mente por parte de nuestro personaje. Incluso, con el paso del tiempo decide ser él el que publique algunas obras, algunas de ellas sabiendo que no serían vistas muy bien por la época y la sociedad y otras que serían de grandísimos autores como Albert Camus. Pero como todo negocio, tanto la librería como la editorial pasan por dificultades. Nuestro librero trata a toda costa de salvar su pequeño negocio y para cuando decide jubilarse la librería todavía sigue abierta. In 1994, she returned to Algeria, which was then under the influence of terrorism. Having very few opportunities to read, she started to write her own stories.

The story in this short novella, is told in two streams one in set in 2017 and the other which is in a diary entry form narrated by Charlot and spans 1930s, through WW2 and Algiers resistance through to 1961. Kağıt bulamıyorsunuz, cepheye çağrılıyorsunuz,bastığınız kitaplar ‘tehlikeli’ görünürse hapis yatıyorsunuz,Cezayir özgürlüğünü savunduğunuz halde Fransız olduğunuz için dükkanınız bombalanıyor,sürgün ediliyorsunuz,köksüz bırakılıyorsunuz. Ama içinizde bir ateş var adına edebiyat denen. Sizi düşürse de, kolunuz kanadınız kırılsa da o ateş sizi kavuruyor. No encuentro las palabras para transmitir lo maravilloso que ha sido perderme en las páginas de este pequeño gran libro.This book is a celebration of publishing industry and those who make stories available to the readers. While sometimes a harrowing story, it's revealing with a little bit of googling just how much literary culture was wrapped up in the little bookshop. This book could lead you down many a French and Algerian literary rabbit holes. Kaouther Adimi me transportó desde el primer párrafo a las calles de Argel. Me perdí entre callejones, deambulé por sus recuerdos, me mezclé con sus olores y me enamoré perdidamente. Me enamoré de ese increíble templo, de esa librería llamada ‘Las verdaderas riquezas’. 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. The author was born in Algeria (1983) and now lives in France. This is her third novel and it was nominated for the Prix Goncourt.

Por la mañana, cuando llego a la librería, me paro un momento delante del escaloncito que hay ante la puerta para contemplar el local que me pertenece. En ocasiones me quedo allí inmóvil tanto tiempo que el camarero del café de al lado se alarma y me pregunta si va todo bien. Pues claro que va todo bien: los libros están colocados por orden alfabético, las obras de arte colgadas justo encima, y aquí solo tienen derecho de ciudadanía la literatura, el arte y la amistad.”] Our Riches does convey a sense of what was attempted and what was lost, or never achieved, but the subject matters -- Charlot's work as well as Algeria itself -- and their stories are so pared down that it's hard not to feel a great deal is missing. These entries are tinged with nostalgia and loss, another store of Charlot's repeatedly bombed and ultimately destroyed in 1961, with his correspondence and archives all lost: "A whole life reduced to rubble".

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Our Riches (or A Bookshop in Algiers, as the British title has it ...) is based on the life of Edmond Charlot (1915-2004) and his publishing and bookselling ventures, specifically the small bookshop 'Les Vrais Richesses' he opened in Algiers in 1936. All along, the Algerian struggle against the French loom over much of what happens -- and then more recent domestic struggles. Ese punto de encuentro nos dará a conocer también la historia de Argel, los años de ocupación francesa y su posterior lucha por la independencia; en pocas páginas la autora consigue un retrato político y social que no nos resulta desconocido.

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