World Literature Today, November 1st, 2007
Leila Sebbar. Metro: Instantanes. Monaco. Rocher. 2007. 139 pages. 13 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-268-06049-1 IN RECENT YEARS, the prose of Leila Sebbar, in works like the novel Marguerite (2002) and the short-story collection Sept filles (2003), has embraced a stylistic and thematic minimalism while continuing to develop its commentary on the feminine condition in a postcolonial, post-immigrant, and transnational world. Her latest collection, Metro: instantanes, takes that minimalism to an extreme as it consists of a prologue and sixty-seven brief tableaux of daily Parisian life, each associated with...
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