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	The Last Summer of Reason - Tahar Djaout
		Djaout allows for some hope, at least wondering about the future at the end of his novel.
		Djaout's portrayal of a country going to ruin is almost gentle, his attacks circumspect.
		Algerian author and journalist Tahar Djaout, born in 1954, was killed in 1993.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/algerie/djaoutt1.htm (1567 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tahar Djaout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Djaout was an Algerian novelist, poet and journalist.
		If all of this sounds sickeningly familiar, remember Tahar Djaout's manuscript was found among his papers in 1993, a full two years before the Taliban established a religious state in Afghanistan.
		The Algerian author Tahar Djaout was assasinated by Islamic terrorists in 1993 for what was claimed to be "the effects of his fearsome pen".
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tahar-Djaout (542 words)

	The Last Summer of Reason - Tahar Djaout
		Djaout was an Algerian novelist, poet and journalist.
		But we can't run the transplant experiment because in June of 1993 Tahar Djaout was assassinated, shot several times outside his home, dragged from his car that was then used by his killers to get away.
		Even if the echo of Tahar Djaout's book did not resonate so true right now, today, it is still a beautifully written homage to life, in all that it opposes and in all that it brings to light despite.
	www.freewilliamsburg.com /february_2002/books.html (1281 words)

	Tahar Djaout's manuscript, The Last Summer of Reason, Ruminator Books, 2001, was found after his death in 1993
		, Djaout's landscape is both harsh under an unyielding sun, and darkly voluptuous with hidden corners intoxicated by the breath of life, sung to by a heaving sea.
		I'm throwing this out because I think Tahar Djaout's prophetic writing focuses on a real dilemma: an oppressive religious state that all but crushes the spirit Vs a market driven state that puts a price on everything and threatens to render the spirit comatose.
		But we can't run the transplant experiment because in June of 1993 Tahar Djaout was assassinated, shot several times outside his home, dragged from his car that was then used by his killers to get away.
	www.ziane-online.com /tahar_djaout/last_summer.htm (1232 words)

	Review \| The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
		Djaout's fiction was marked throughout by his uncompromising stance toward corruption and what he considered to be a betrayal of history and of the Algerian Revolution's ideals.
		Tahar Djaout was a good enough writer to borrow but not mimic.
		Shortly after writing these words in 1993, Tahar Djaout was assassinated by a man who admitted acting on behalf of religious militants.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/lastsummerreason.html (2214 words)

	The Last Summer of Reason, Vol. 1
		Readers are taken into the lush depths of the bookseller's dreams, the memories of his now empty family life, and his passion for literature, then yanked back into the terror and drudgery of his daily routine by the vandalism, assaults, and death warrants that afflict him.
		On May 26, 1993 novelist, poet, and journalist Tahar Djaout was attacked by several assassins as he was leaving his home in Bainem, Algeria.
		Djaout's death was attributed to an Islamic fundamentalist group.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn1886913501 (415 words)

	Black America Today / The Last Summer Of Reason
		The novel draws from Djaout's rich command of poetic prose, understanding of Islam as practiced by extremists, and political persecution in Algeria.
		Djaout succeeds in depicting fanaticism in its worst and repressive form: one extremist becomes much like the other, until they all become one faceless mass shiftless, dangerous and unshaken by the reason of past existence.
		We can only postulate that Djaout intended for the whole story to be told by the reader, and that the gap in narrative is meant for the reader to postulate both historic and contemporary events that have led to an authoritarian regime coming into power.
	www.blackamericatoday.com /article.cfm?ArticleID=167 (508 words)

	Algeria Interface
		The murder of journalist Tahar Djaout in May 1993 was the first of many in the 90s.
		Algiers, 08/03/01 — Tahar Djaout was a respected writer, journalist and editor-in-chief of the weekly Ruptures.
		Djaout was rushed to hospital in a coma.
	www.ziane-online.com /references/only_questions.htm (722 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS The Last Summer of Reason
		Djaout interweaves accounts of Yekker's brave attempts to maintain his daily routine as he awaits the inevitable with a wrenching and lyrical exploration of the psychological causes and effects of religious fundamentalism.
		Algeria is familiar with the injustices that led to Djaout's death.
		The 20th century was particularly bloody, with a violent fight for independence in the late 1950s, a hard-line regime in the '60s and '70s, and the rise of a harsh brand of Islamic fundamentalism in the '80s and '90s.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/review.asp?id=1625 (1238 words)

	Tahar DJAOUT
		Tahar Djaout publie son premier recueil de poèmes Solstice Barbelé au Canada.
		Les Américains parlent de Tahar Djaout Depuis octobre 2001, la vie et l’œuvre de Tahar Djaout ont fait l’objet de plusieurs écrits, de rencontres et de débats aux Etats-Unis.
		Tahar Djaout fait des « entrées spectaculaires » Oulkhou, cette Kabylie maritime, se souvient encore de ses obsèques qu’Arezki Metref décrit ainsi : « Quelques tombes.
	www.berberescope.com /tahar_djaout.htm (1432 words)

	Everyday Subversions - New York Times
		Djaout (who appears as a character in Gloria Emerson's 2000 novel ''Loving Graham Greene'') was an important symbolic target.
		Djaout, a timid, refined man with horn-rimmed glasses and a handlebar mustache, was born in a small village in the Berber-speaking province of Greater Kabylia in 1954, the year Algeria's war of independence against the French began.
		Djaout's great subject was his country's slow, painful effort to enter modernity, and he examined it with the troubled love of a native son.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DC133FF930A15751C1A9679C8B63 (631 words)

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		Djaout's pen, this political setting was shaped into a religious 1984 that became his novel.
		Tahar started as a story he ends as an exile's soliloquy on the metaphysics of what it means to be human, what it means to know a reason, what it does to one to see a bird fly, the sun set.
		Tahar Djaout was assassinated in 1993 by a man who admitted to acting on behalf of religious militants.
	www.gowanusbooks.com /lastsummer.htm (1448 words)

	Book Reviews Issue 39
		Born in Algeria, Djaout was assassinated in 1993, an event attributed to members of the Islamic Salvation Front, a fundamentalist group that interpreted Djaout’s writings as a threat to their interests and those of other Muslims.
		Djaout had been a novelist, poet, and journalist, publishing eleven books total by the time of his death at the age of 39.
		Djaout describes Boualem’s day-to-day life, takes us through his dreams and memories, and leaves us in the end with the immensity of an uncertain future.
	www.barcelonareview.com /rev/39.htm (4069 words)

	Tahar Djaout - Encyclopédie, Histoire, Géographie et Biographie
		Tahar Djaout, "Algérie Littérature/Action" n° 12-13, (textes de Soumya Ammar Khodja et Michel-Georges Bernard, entretien de Tahar Djaout avec I. Tcheho), juin-septembre 1997, Paris, 1997.
		Tahar Djaout, introduction d’Emmanuel Hiriart, choix de poèmes et documents, "Poésie/première" n° 26, Éditions Editinter, Soisy-sur-Seine, 2003.
		Tahar Djaout, Biographie, Bibliographie, Sur Tahar Djaout, Citations, Jugement, Lien interne, Liens externes, Wikipédia:ébauche écrivain, Littérature algérienne, Poète algérien, Écrivain algérien francophone, Journaliste algérien, Personnalité berbère, Naissance en 1954, Décès en 1993 et Kabylie.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedie-francaise/Tahar_Djaout (1272 words)

	Fundamental resistance (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Djaout interweaves accounts of Yekker's brave attempts to maintain his daily routine as he awaits the inevitable with a wrenching and lyrical exploration of the psychological causes and effects of religious fundamentalism.
		Algeria is familiar with the injustices that led to Djaout's death.
		The 20th century was particularly bloody, with a violent fight for independence in the late 1950s, a hard-line regime in the '60s and '70s, and the rise of a harsh brand of Islamic fundamentalism in the '80s and '90s.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=2708 (1260 words)

	DesiJournal.com - The Watchers
		The Algerian author Tahar Djaout was assasinated by Islamic terrorists in 1993 for what was claimed to be "the effects of his fearsome pen".
		Djaout weaves a wonderful tale with plenty of atmosphere and a slight undercurrent of tension.
		Djaout’s voice continues to speak loud and clear even after he has been silenced—a triumph of the pen over the sword.
	www.desijournal.com /book_print.asp?ArticleId=27 (353 words)

	African Writers Index
		Tahar Ouettar (also spelled Tahir Wattar) Is one of the more inportant figures in Algerian literature written in Arabic.
		Tahar Djaout was one of the first of a far too long string of intellectuals to be killed in the violence that has shaken Algeria since the canceled 1992 elections.
		Djaout was born in Kabylie, (1952) studied mathematics at the university, then became a journalist.
	www.geocities.com /africanwriters/Countries/AuthorsAlgeria.html (2800 words)

	FileRoom.org - Algerian writer Tahar Djaout murdered by the Armed Islamic Group
		Djaout was an avid proponent of secularism which asserts the freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, within a state that is neutral on matters of belief, and gives no state privileges or subsidies to religions; and his writings often promote this belief in secularism.
		Description of Incident: Faher Djaout was assassinated by the rebel Armed Islamic Group because of his support of secularism and opposition to what he considered fanaticism.
		After Djaout’s death the BBC made a documentary about him entitled 'Shooting the Writer' which was introduced by Salman Rushdie.
	www.thefileroom.org /documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/1054 (190 words)

	A timely, very good 'Reason' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Algerian writer Tahar Djaout was 39 when he was shot in the head.
		The title of Djaout's final novel, The Last Summer of Reason, seems prophetic at a time when we are asked to react to things we don't understand.
		Its publication in English, eight years after Djaout was killed (the manuscript was found on his desk), couldn't be more timely.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/2001-10-04-reason.htm (508 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Last Summer of Reason: Books: Wole Soyinka,Tahar Djaout,Marjolijn de Jager (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Djaout provides precious little elaboration on how the group took over, and even less on why the youthful supporters of the movement would buy into the drab, colorless world the party's vision endorses.
		Djaout's writing displays an excellent flair for poetic description, but the threadbare plot doesn't provide much to differentiate this novel from other titles in which heroic protagonists battle repressive regimes.
		Yekker is a truly literary hero, openly disagreeing with the treatment of women and intellectuals in his country and never abandoning his belief in the power of books to restore sanity to a nation driven mad with self-righteousness.
	www.amazon.ca /Last-Summer-Reason-Wole-Soyinka/dp/1886913579 (1318 words)

	Amazon.com: The Last Summer of Reason: A Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Djaout provides precious little elaboration on how the group took over, and even less on why the youthful supporters of the movement would buy into the drab, colorless world the party's vision endorses.
		Djaout's writing displays an excellent flair for poetic description, but the threadbare plot doesn't provide much to differentiate this novel from other titles in which heroic protagonists battle repressive regimes.
		Yekker is a truly literary hero, openly disagreeing with the treatment of women and intellectuals in his country and never abandoning his belief in the power of books to restore sanity to a nation driven mad with self-righteousness.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/1886913501/ref%3Dnosim/babel-20 (1758 words)

	۞ Tahar Djaout - Encyclopédie, information et définition sur www.apropos-sport.fr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tahar Djaout est un écrivain et poète algérien d'origines kabyles et d'expression française, né en 1954.
		D'origine kabyle, Tahar Djaout est né le 11 janvier 1954 à Oulkhou (Ighil Ibahriyen) près d' Azeffoun en Haute Kabylie.
		Djaout nous emmene à travers les yeux d' un enfant dans la kabylie profonde et tourmentée de l' apres guerre d' independance.
	www.apropos-sport.fr /Tahar_Djaout (378 words)

	Assassinat de Tahar Djaout : un crime sans coupables
		Le 26 mai 1993, Tahar Djaout était tué de deux balles dans la tête par un mystérieux commando armé.
		Il est 9 h, Tahar Djaout entre dans sa voiture et allume le moteur.
		Djaout le regarde : il se retrouve brusquement face à un canon de revolver.
	www.algeria-watch.de /farticle/presse/tahar_djaout.htm (1185 words)

	Amazon.com: The Watchers: Books: Tahar Djaout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tahar Djaout, Algerian author of The Last Summer of Reason, was killed in 1993 at the age of 39 in an attack attributed to an Islamic fundamentalist group.
		Djaout's clotted prose makes for slow going, but his examination of the vagaries of power is illuminating.
		Telling his story in the present tense, Djaout imbues it with vitality and immense feeling, revealing the palpable frustrations in the lives of both Menaour, who misses the simple country life and friendships he once enjoyed, and Mahfoud, whose creativity is regarded as irrelevant.
	www.amazon.com /Watchers-Tahar-Djaout/dp/1886913625 (1780 words)

	village voice > books > The Watchers by Tahar Djaout by Amy Farley
		In death, Tahar Djaout proved himself a prophet.
		Djaout's death, the first in a campaign of terror against Algerian intellectuals, marked the start of a violent conflict between Islamicists and an embittered government holding onto democracy by force.
		Although Djaout often sacrifices character and plot for a political message, he seduces with landscapes.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0242,farley,39172,10.html (644 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: The Watchers (Tahar Djaout) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a small town in Algeria, is an old war veteran Menouar Ziada who is haunted by memories of past wars and is only too happy living most of his life just outside his home, chatting with passersby.
		Descriptions of nature are breathtaking, and the revelations of the characters' inner longings and thoughts are often unique (a sick child trying to read an adventure story which is too difficult is particularly memorable).
		Djaout's striking use of irony finds its ultimate expression in Mahfoud's invention of a loom and his celebration of women, who play no active role in this society.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-1886913544.html (906 words)

	Compass - ABC TV Religion
		Tahar Djaout, 39, a poet, prize winning novelist and journalist was gunned down in front of his family apartment in Algiers.
		As a journalist, Djaout defended liberty, equality, justice and democracy: Western words in an Islamic country.
		Although he was a Muslim, he was outspoken against the Islamic fundamentalists who are seeking to oust Algeria's army-backed regime through escalating terrorism.
	www.abc.net.au /compass/series/1997/shooting.htm (101 words)

	Le cas de Tahar Djaout présenté par Reporters sans frontières
		Alors que Tahar Djaout est toujours dans le coma, le 30 mai, un jeune homme fait une "confession" télévisée et révèle l'identité des deux exécutants et du commanditaire, chef connu et médiatisé des GIA.
		Finalement, les assassins présumés de Tahar Djaout comparaissent dans un procès peu convaincant : alors que les deux principaux accusés ont été abattus par les forces de l'ordre quelques jours après l'assassinat, le jeune complice revient, devant la cour, sur ses aveux et déclare avoir été torturé.
		L'affaire Djaout, son énigme, cristallise le malaise qui règne dans la société algérienne concernant les assassinats imputés officiellement aux groupes armés islamistes.
	www.unesco.org /bpi/fre/3mai99/7.htm (1132 words)

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