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L’Opium et le bâton

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In Mouloud Mammeri
In L’Opium et le bâton (1965; “Opium and the Stick”), Mammeri constructed a story of the Algerian war of independence, attempting to give the struggle meaning in terms of the essential problem of freedom. His later works included a play, Le Banquet (1973), which dealt with…
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