Just arrived from the printing press: "The Old Man from the Mountains" by 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 become the focus of the media years later. In Old von Berge, which he writes between 1977 and 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