Gibraltar No Seifuku / Hara Title : MAARAKAT AZZOUKAK (Juyaku) Original Title: La Prise De Gibraltar (Sosho Ecriture No Boken)

[Machine Translation] Yellow, then yellowish, then yellow again. Past and present, history and fiction intersect in Algeria, and each time they are recounted, differences are conceived and misalignments occur. An allegory of the blurring of the boundaries between truth and falsehood, and the conquest of historical fact by fiction. A precise and fluid device is set in motion. A novel, in other words, is a provocation and a challenge. The adventure will begin with the reader. A pleasurable work of Maghreb literature in which several languages are intermingled.

黄色、それから黄色っぽい色、そしてまた黄色。アルジェリアを舞台に過去と現在、歴史と虚構が交錯し、再説されるたびに差異を孕み、ズレが生じていく。真偽をめぐる境界の曖昧さのアレゴリーと、フィクションによる史実の征服。精密かつ流麗な仕掛けが動き出す。小説とはつまり挑発であり挑戦なのだ。冒険は読者とともに始まるだろう。複数の言語が入り乱れるマグレブ文学の快作。