Charlot gründete in den 30er Jahren eine Buchhandlung in Algier, die von Beginn an viel mehr als eine Buchhandlung war.

Schön auch, dass es am Ende ein paar weiterführende Literaturliste gibt sowie eine Liste aller von Charlot herausgegebenen Werke. I go on a bit much about the schools in the paragraph above because it ties in with a book I reviewed about a month ago: The Simple Past by Driss Chraibi. It`s a beautifully constructed book, easy to read but with plenty of echoes which resound after you`ve put the book down. Siento un flechazo absoluto por el entusiasmo de Edmond Charlot, por su amor a los libros y por fundar 'Las Verdaderas Riquezas', una librería/hogar donde he podido conocer los comienzos de Camus, Gide, Giono, Jules Roy y un montón de autoras y autores más que no he parado de apuntar.This book has had a profound impact upon what I believe about the world, about myself, and about the role that literature and art plays within culture. I libri diventano e sono il luogo per sfuggire all'orrore, ma anche per vivere nuove realtà e imparare a viaggiare con la mente. No obstante, la historia comienza con el fin de la librería, más tarde convertida en biblioteca cuando ya no vende ningún libro y es de alguna manera rescatada por los organismos públicos de Argel. When there was initial talk of integrating the schools we read excerpts from a report issued at the time saying the schools could never be integrated because of the horrible psychological impact upon a French boy if a native boy received better marks than the French boy did!

Seguro que muchos de nosotros hemos pensado más de una vez en dedicarnos al sector editorial o a los libros. A book spanning the history of late colonial and early post independence Algeria, through a bookseller. She builds a complete timeline of Charlot's life through a series of diary entries that take us through all of the ups and downs of his career. Charlot was an advocate for Algerian independence and the story is peppered with historical incidents of violence and massacres during the war for independence.L'auteure nous fait voyager dans le temps (passé et présent) et dans l'espace (les deux rives de la méditerranée). I have recently been pondering what it means to exist within culture, what it means to have an effect upon culture, and what it means to allow culture to affect your outlook.

Yeni yazarlar keşfetmelerini ve Camus’nün Tersi ve Yüzü’nü almalarını sağlamaya çalıştım, ama hiç umurlarında olmadı. Fransa’nın,savaşın,ayrımcılığın gölgesinde olduğunuzda tutkulularınızı yerine getirmek pek kolay olmuyor. No encuentro las palabras para transmitir lo maravilloso que ha sido perderme en las páginas de este pequeño gran libro.Finally, there are short chapters in between that recount historical events and serve as a guide to give the reader context. Küçücük kitabevinin kapısından Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupery,Andre Gide gibi nice isimler girdi. We saw a very personal insight into part of Algeria’s history, as well as a perspective offering a wider view on this political unrest. Charlot is portrayed as an idealist, humanist, dreamer, and bibliophile who strongly believed in the power of storytelling as a path to peace and unity. It’s the story of a ‘native boy’ in French Morocco whose father sent him to French school to ‘learn how his enemy thinks.