The Village Voice, October 16th, 2002
Tahar Djaout's Algerian Tale
THE WATCHERS By Tahar Djaout Ruminator Books, 206 pp., $23
In death, Tahar Djaout proved himself a prophet. Shortly after Islamic fundamentalists assassinated the 39-year-old Algerian writer in 1993, The Last Summer of Reason, his novel about a country engulfed by religious fanaticism, was published. Djaout's death, the first in a campaign of terror against Algerian intellectuals, marked the start of a violent conflict between Islamicists and an embittered government holding onto democracy by force. But just a few years earlier, when the tremors of crisis were st...
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