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The Wound by Mauvignier, Laurent; Ball, David; Ball, Nicole; Flynn, Nick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wound about?

"Where is your wound?" asks Jean Genet in the lines Laurent Mauvignier uses as an epigraph to The Wound . By the time we have finished this four-part novel, we realize that for many the wound lies four decades back in "the Events" that people have tried to not talk about ever since: the Algerian War. Chronicling the lives of two cousins—Bernard and Rabut—both in the present and at the time of the Algerian War of Independence in the 1960s, we get a full picture of the lasting effects this event had on the men who were involved. Through the fragments of their stories we see the whole history of the war: its atrocities, its horrors, and its hatreds. Mauvignier shows readers how the Algerian War, always present yet always repressed, has sickened the emotional and moral life of everyone it touched—and France itself, perhaps. The epigraph, like the novel, suggests that wounded men may even become the wound itself.

Who reads The Wound?

Author

Mauvignier, Laurent; Ball, David; Ball, Nicole; Flynn, Nick

Publisher

UNP - Nebraska

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803276550

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction