Algerian literature,
Before independence
Even today, some pretend that
is Albert Camus
and it true for long time, Albert Camus
has represented, what we call the Algerian literature 
He was a socialist
But the French who knows Camus
May be they will knows him better
if we compare him to another writer
who was in the same situation 
an American writer
a great writer, another Nobel prized like Camus
which is William Faulkner
Now we have two writers, whom born in similar situations
we can say that Camus was issued from a modest family, 
Faulkner was a son of planter
in The Southern United States
Camus lived among Algerian population
Faulkner use to live among the slaves
In the South of the United States
The biggest difference between those two writers
Faulkner use to speak the language of the blacks
he even using the slave "slang"  in some of his books
He knew them
He was a racist, he has a soften attitude toward a racism 
But in his books, he debates and arguing with these blacks
He always try to understand them, and very often he understood them
even though he still hate them
In the other side, Camus
Sometimes he was with us (Algerians struggling with the colonialism)
not for the independence but he more human toward indigenous population 
less brutal, less racist
But in fact, it was a moral stand
Only moral
because in Camus's work
It's easy to see that the most beautiful about what he wrote, was Tipaza, the beaches 
Algeria is beautiful 
But there is no population, we don`t see them
In Camus`s work the Algerian people does not exist
is very revealing
Let take two books
One belong to Camus and the other one is from Faulkner
we can choose for instance the "Stranger" from Camus
and "Light in August" from Faulkner
which could be compared in this case
In the "Stranger", The Algerian character, the only one
I believed his name was "Said"
he got a tiny existence in the book
He said only few words, and suddenly he died from a sunburn
No more "Said" no more Algerian 
and all what left is French Algeria its not Algeria
In the "Light of August'
Faulkner
describe the criminal Black Slave 
with hateful, we can feel the fight with the black in his book
The Black Character dominates the book
her we can feel the work of a great writer
because he knows what he was talking about
and the misunderstanding her in Algeria during French colonization
It was impossible for the writers, it was some exception may be, 
But in the general, its stand on an illusion and misunderstanding,
a reality wrongly described 
Because Camus, he always lived among the europeens
He does not have any opening
we can accuse him, but we are not allow to fall in another morale position
In fact , Camus does not have any elementary curiosity 
to try to understand the indigenous population, their tradition and their language
He vision about the Algerian population was very rudimentary
and that what his work is made of
and we saw that curiously during the Algerian war
He took a courageous stand morally
Because the French colon trow on him tomatoes and even, they try to kill him
but at a given time, when he got the Nobel prize
he has a revealing speech
and after the ceremony, he was interviewed by journalists
They asked him a question,
because his mother still living in Algeria, during the war
And it came to say that if he had to choose between Algeria and My Mother
I will choose my mother
and at this moment, in the room
it was an Algerian named "Said" like the character who was killed in his book
He is an Algerian worker in Sweden 
who was among the attendance
who told him that If it was me, I can't make a difference between Algeria and my mother
because when  we feel  Algerian, we  cannot think that  we can dissociate his mother from Algeria
The drama is here
That why, the French must understand
that the Algerian literature is not Camus
and Algeria is not Franch
literature is a good way to understand
Translated from French to English: Docflyte - cite des annassers Kouba Algiers 
