Une plongée en spirale dans un enfer indicible. Dans ce livre Yasmina Khadra est moins bavard, moins verbeux et terriblement efficace. ( )

> À quoi rêvent les loups, de Yasmina KHADRA (Julliard, Paris, 1999, 274 p.)
Se reporter à la critique de Johanne JARRY
In: (1999). Compte rendu de [Fiction]. Nuit blanche, (78), p. 42… ; (en ligne),
URL : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/20884ac

Nafa, un jeune algérien d'Alger, issu des milieux pauvres, est entrainé vers l'intégrisme islamique et la guérilla du GIA.

Effrayant de réalisme. ( )

La historia de Nafa Walid, un joven actor que soñaba con la fama antes de despertar en medio de una pesadilla. El autor, que nos sumerge en el Argel anterior a la ilegalización del FIS, nos descubre como un hombre normal puede ser llevado a la vorágine del infierno. ( )

I read this because it's touted as the best way to understand "how an Islamic fundamentalist is formed." Well, maybe. The story could be transferred to any culture in which a poor underclass is full of rage. There is almost nothing about Islam in the book -- I mean, no insights, no real information. I think the only moral a reader can take from this is that intifadas can form anywhere there is social injustice, provided that the poor have very little in their lives: no attachments to family, music and culture, religion...

It also needs to be said that least in this book, the author is not much of a novelist. The book is a skin of fiction stretched uncomfortably over the author's chafing memories. ( )