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Episode: The Pillar of Salt
Description: We discuss the classic 1953 novel by the Jewish Tunisian Francophone writer Albert Memmi, who died this year. This sharp and beautiful book is many things: a coming of age story, an account of colonialism, and a World War II novel. Its driven, unhappy narrator breaks with his community and family in search of a new identity but is disappointed again and again. Like Lot's wife in the Bible, he cannot help looking back on the past he rejects. He asks: βis it possible for me to survive my contemplation of myself?βShow Notes:The Pillar of S...