The Pillar of Salt

Alexandre Mordekhai Benillouche, a young hero and a narrator of Memmi, is a Jewish native of French colonies in Tunisia. His extensive explanation of "bitter almonds in the skin of a black calf" in his father's tanned store betrayed Memmi's nostalgia for the childhood of the slums in Tunisia, among other things. But on the eve of his commandments, Alexander acknowledged the exciting "distance between me and the tribe". He asked his family and the Jewish community and realized that this was a Berber superstition mixture. . . And rituals not meeting the minimum spiritual need. "As an excellent student, Alexandria gave up on the tradition of intellectual life, but he felt isolated at school, in a way he could not absorb his wealthy homosexual classmate After volunteering to work in the labor camp during World War II, through energetic research of contradictions that even hindered Aleksander 's most nonselfish ambition, Alexander continued to plague him at the camp. After discovering the differences between the people and the ethnicities, only asylum and innovative writing - "hosting by reproducing life" eventually can avoid despair. But like Lot 's wife, her recession turns her into salt, Alexander' s existential self - correction only places him in his solitary prison.

"His father is an Italian Jew, his mother is a Berber, and Benirush is struggling to breathe on the irregular edge of the slums of Tunisia ... a mature, thoughtful book - New York Times

"Clear vision, passionate justice and warmth" - New York Herald Tribune

"In the tradition of modern French desperate novel Celine Sartol-Camus, this autobiographical story is mature, elegant and purposeful - a thoughtful and insightful job." - Library Magazine

Genesis 19: 26 - "After a while, I became a salt column." When Lot and his wife fled from Sodom, the talker mentioned the scene and despite the warning of God , She looked back and changed. Please become a salt pillar. Interestingly, the person who "did not follow" the story at this point was Batubi, but the narrator became a pillar of salt. Matthew 25: 32-42 - "When I remember being an election day, I intuitively put my hands in my pocket and made it my own." "Election" is democratic It is not limited to words. It was chosen as relief (remember voters of "Young Goodman Brown"). Some critics believe that at this point in the story, the treatment of Batubi's narrator will decide his relief.

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.

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.