Chérif Arbouz
| Chérif Arbouz | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 February 1930 Tizi Rached, French Algeria |
| 17 March 2021 (aged 91)17 March 2021 (aged 91) | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Algerian |
| 💼 Occupation | Writer |
Chérif Arbouz (8 February 1930 – 17 March 2021) was an Algerian writer.
Biography[edit]
Arbouz spent much of his childhood in Taourga, where his father was a teacher. He studied at the Algiers 1 University, and in 1966, he graduated from the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud in France. He became a teacher like his father and worked for Algeria's national education system for many years in Algiers. From 1992 to 2008, he worked as a multimedia and distance education consultant at the Université de la formation continue (continuing education university). After he retired, he wrote fiction novels about the history of Kabylia. He combined his passion for the history of the region with social and human sciences, writing La Fantastique Odyssée and La Grande Enigme, published in 2011 and 2012.[1][2]
He also collected folklore and wrote a book on Berber grammar, a transliteration system for Berber languages.[3]
Chérif Arbouz died on 17 March 2021 at the age of 91.[4]
Works[edit]
- La Fantastique Odyssée (Fantastic Odyssey) (2011): Set in the mid-21st century, when climate upheaval and demographic pressures had brought humanity to the edge of the abyss, the novel tells of the return of the Stargils, aliens who had already come to earth in the fourth century before our era, opens the way to a new era. The novel rests on a dialectic relationship between the human past in the classical era of Ancient Greece and a near-future extrapolated from fundamental tendencies seen today. It was inspired by the concept of the "fulfillment society" developed by Julian Huxley in his essay New Bottles for New Wine (1957)[5] and its urgent call to learned men and the powers in place, to go towards a human society of accomplishment (reprinted by the New Scientist, 1963). This effort allows the contours of what might be a future global unity to be drawn, the outcome of a long selection and evolutionary process applied to human societies.
- C'était en Algérie au temps des colonies (It was in Algeria in Colonial Times) (Editions Ines, 2011) - "stuffed with tales and anecdotes"[6]
- La Grande Énigme (The Great Enigma) (2012) Arbouz continues the space saga of the Stargils that begun in Fantastique Odyssée. Once Earth is saved, the Stargils pursue their dream of a galactic union. They discover the planet Azad, traces of an ancient unknown world, and the involuntary heir to a lost civilization, an android who becomes the hero of a cosmic epic. Arbouz reflects on the nature of humanity and the evolution of science. Starting from the progress of artificial intelligence, he speculates on the emergence of a living and omniscient cybernetic being with superior powers of reason.
- Le Seigneur aux panthères (Lord of Panthers) (2012) - The Middle Ages in Algeria was a period of political and social effervescence rarely negotiated by historians and novelists. This series of two novels are set in the Kabylia of the 15th and 16th centuries. Le seigneur aux panthères du Djurdjura introduces a fictional character, Lyazid, a young man of high birth robbed of his birthright,[7] surrounded by protagonists from 16th-century Algeria. The historical novel L’étranger de Tigrine (The Foreigner of Tigrine) is set in Djurdjura in the second half of the 15th century and was inspired by an anonymous epic poem, Le forgeron d´Akalous (The Blacksmith of Akalous). The way of life of the 15th century Kabyles is faithfully rendered.
References[edit]
- ↑ www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/fantastique-odyss%C3%A9e-%C3%A9pop%C3%A9es-cosmiques-epop%C3%A9es-ebook/dp/b01gern02w. Retrieved 2021-04-26. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HELBLPU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2. Retrieved 2021-04-26. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Chérif Arbouz (2016). Ecrire l'amazigh: Ouvrage didactique (in français). UPblisher. p. 157. ISBN 9782759902231. Search this book on
- ↑ "Disparition de l'écrivain algérien Chérif Arbouz". ActuaLitté (in French). 30 March 2021.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Chris Renwick (February 9, 2017). "New Bottles for New Wine: Julian Huxley, Biology and Sociology in Britain". Sociological Review. 64: 151–167. doi:10.1111/2059-7932.12018. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Si Tawerga m'était conté...Ex Tigisi, Horace Vernet". Overblog (in French). 22 June 2011.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "La Kabylie en 7001 Livres" [Kabylia in 7001 Books] (in French). Gérard Lambert Bretagne (GéLamBre).CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
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