Arrived fresh from the printing press: "The old man from the mountain“ von Habib Tengour!
He is considered "one of the most powerful and imaginative poetic voices of the post-colonial francophone Maghreb" (Pierre Joris). In an equally visionary manner, Habib Tengour takes up topics in his books that only come into the media focus years later. in the Ancient of mountains, on which he writes from 1977-1981, he traces religious totalitarianism, asks about the intellectual's responsibility in the face of war, corruption and ideological hardening, the suitability of religion, science and politics as viable paths to "truth".
Translated from the French by Regina Keil-Sagawe
