{"id":587,"date":"2008-06-18T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2008-06-18T22:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T06:57:00","slug":"ah-nostalgia-boualem-sansal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/ah-nostalgia-boualem-sansal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, nostalgia & Boualem Sansal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in my rooms, I started reading the book I had bought that morning, Boualem Sansal\u2019s Petit \u00e9loge de la m\u00e9moire<\/span>, subtitled \u201cFour thousand and one years of nostalgia.\u201d Sansal opens his book by defining \u201cnostalgia, or homesickness as one says,\u201d as \u201ca richness, a formidable quarry.\u201d The only problem, he goes on, is that one needs to know where one\u2019s home country is, what it was, what it became, how and why one moved away from it and which thread still links one to it. \u201cWhich means that nostalgia often leads to errancy, to apathy, to anger, to renunciation. At best one invents a myth in which one takes refuge as in a prison.\u201d But, he continues, when the writer uses nostalgia \u2014 a business as risky as speleology \u2014 well, then it is not \u201ca silly baseless belief but a freedom based on facts.\u201d And Sansal goes on to show this in this marvellous little book as he explores his own vision of the history of the Maghreb through the ages, as seen through an \u201cI\u201d that is that of a Berber first born in pharaonic Egypt and then reborn\/reincarnated over and over again at core hinge moments in the history of what was called Numidia, Iffrikyia or the Maghreb.<\/p>\n

More when I wake up \u2014 but from what? The sleep of nostalgia or the nostalgia of sleep?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in my rooms, I started reading the book I had bought that morning, Boualem Sansal\u2019s Petit \u00e9loge de la m\u00e9moire, subtitled \u201cFour thousand and one years of nostalgia.\u201d Sansal opens his book by...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}