Between Sea and Sahara

An Algerian Journal

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Eugene Fromentin

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Between Sea and Sahara gives us Algeria in the third decade of colonization. Written in the 1850s by the gifted painter and extraordinary writer Eugene Fromentin, the many-faceted work is travelogue, fiction, stylized memoir, and essay on art. Fromentin paints a compelling word picture of Algeria and its people, questioning France's-and his own-role there. He shows French dynamism tending to arrogance, tinged with malaise, as well as the complexity of the Algerians and their canny survival tactics. In his efforts to capture the non-Western world on paper as well as on canvas, Fromentin reveals much about the roots of a colonial relationship that continues to affect the Algeria of today. He also reveals his own development as painter, writer-and human being. Now available for the first time in English, Between Sea and Sahara appeals to today's reader on many levels-as a story of color, romance, and dramatic tension; as an eyewitness account of the colonial experience in Algeria; as a study in trans-genre text, foreshadowing Fromentin's psychological masterpiece, the novel Dominique. And, as Valerie Orlando points out in her introduction, Fromentin opens a window on the ethos informing the fashion of Orientalism that flourished with colonialism.

Author Biography:

Eugene Fromentin (1820-1876) was a master in two arts. Especially known for his paintings of North Africa, he was the author of two travel books on the region. He also wrote the novel Dominique and a work on Flemish and Dutch painting. Both Flaubert and George Sand thought highly of him as a writer. Blake Robinson is a translator from French and Italian. He lives in Miami and Washington, D.C. Valérie K. Orlando is professor of French and Francophone Literatures in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Maryland, CollegeP ark.

Release date NZ

January 15th, 2000

Author

Eugene Fromentin

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Contributors

Introduction by Valerie K. Orlando
Translated by Blake Robinson

Pages

224

Dimensions

140x203x23

ISBN-13

9780821412725

Product ID

7562292

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