Extended Reading
  • Chance 2022-01-24 17:48:15

    To be a victim, not to be an executioner

    The background is the era when the ethnic conflict in Algeria escalated into war in 1954. An Algerian rural teacher lived a simple and peaceful life. One day, the police brought a murderer (an Arab) to visit and asked him to take the prisoner to the border city to the authorities.

    "For the French we...

  • Marvin 2022-04-19 09:02:52

    A war that man cannot stop

    Life is always a coincidence. I just heard Young Master Yan talk about Saint-Saëns this morning. It is said that this master was tired of the hustle and bustle of the city in his later years, and in order to pursue poetry and distance, he moved to Algiers, Algeria, which is a place where cultures...

  • Jade 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    Going for Camus. rural teacher. Relations with Arabs. The plot is slightly simpler, so it's hard to get better. At the end of the last lesson, the children dispersed towards the mountains in all directions.

  • Leif 2022-04-23 07:04:26

    Desolate, quiet but with a hidden power, when will we be able to usher in peace? No longer divided into us and you, no longer a lonely soul in exile in the motherland. Camus ends by writing that "in this vast land he loves so much, he is alone", but here Muhammad goes to the desert rather than to death, perhaps to give the world a little consolation. Just like Daru's last exhortation, don't surrender, there is hope only if you don't surrender.

Far from Men quotes

  • Mohamed: Tu cries comme ça à la classe?

    [Do you shout at your pupils like that?]

  • Daru: [Of being of Spanish descent in Algeria] Pour les français, on était des arabes, et maintenant pour les arabes, on est des français.

    [For the French, we were Arabs; and now for the Arabs, we are French]