A Desperate Need for Identity; THE PILLAR OF SALT. By Albert Memmi. Translated from the French by Edouard Roditi. 342 pp. New York: Criterion Books. $3.75.

True homeless 'serious torture is the theme of Albert Memmi' s middle-aged, well-thought-out book. Of course, it is called a novel to minimize the autobiographical immediacy of heat and steam rising from the odor alleys of Tunisia. Read the full text of Timesmachine »

Margaux: Albert Camus in the preface of the semi - autobiographical novel "The Column of Salt", Albert Camus pointed out that "French culture Jewish Tunisians can not be accurate. It grew up among French Jews in Tunisia and grew up in France and the United States. EL HARA has given me the opportunity to explore the reason why my family moved from Tunisia to France and Israel within 10 years of independence of Tunisia. Mo: While shooting, this is Ramadan, it is very hot. As a result, most people are tired or hiding all day, as many places are closed all day (considering that we want to capture the atmosphere around the downtown of the current downtown, this is hard). I am not a Muslim, but since I do not want to eat in front of hungry people, sometimes it is very difficult to eat small food and water.

When salt pillars were first published in 1953, it caused a scandal in Tunisia. The famous sociologist Albert Menmi was likewise the son of a poor Jewish parent living in the edge of the poor Jewish and Muslim family, the life of the small Jewish community in Tunisia and the local petty bourgeoisie I am writing frankly about it. Failure, they think they are gorgeous, but they are just ridiculous. Memmi 's criticism of his Muslim brothers and the various European colonialists near him is even more. "Salt pillars are like general indictment, Memmi wrote in a new introduction to the 2013 ebook version.

His first book, autobiographical novel "Salt Column" appeared in 1953. After Tunisia became independent in 1956, prominent left wing and Memmi Jews returned to Paris and since that he lived in Paris. During the war in Algeria, he published a preface to settlers and colonists and Jean-Paul Sartre in 1957. In 1962 and 1966, Galimard released a portrait of Jewish and Jewish liberation. In 1973, Memmi became a French citizen, he taught at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Universit de de Paris-Nanterre, was awarded the French National University France Prize and Dr. Honoris of the University of Benglion at Negev It was Causa.