Albert Memmi

French writer of Tunisian-Jewish origin

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Works: 124

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Agar
Le désert
Tunisie, an I
Portrait de colonisé
Tatort

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Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,142x
G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences
· 2007 · cited 53,212x
Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
· 1977 · cited 49,848x
Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses
· 2009 · cited 30,291x
Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
· 1999 · cited 27,795x

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Quotes

“Sleep, when one has no worries, tastes like honey.”
“Since that day, I have slowly acquired the uneasiness about my clothes that characterizes the poor who are ashamed. I was no longer at my ease in any suit: I felt that I was badly dressed and that I attracted the attention of all. I feared, even when wearing a new suit, the mockery of others at my unsuccessful attempts. That is how I became what is known as careful of my clothes.”
“I was cornered, without any escape, and began to think of death for the first time in my life. Without being at all strange or foreign, this idea of suicide was born within me quite spontaneously and gently, like the world coming to life at dawn. At once, suicide seemed familiar to me, like a release, and I was surprised how convenient and tempting so serious an action could seem. The ultimate solution to my problems was within my own power.”
“It was in the Passage that I discovered tribal life and learned to hate it. How happy had been the intimacy of our blind alley, now lost for good! As long as I had lived alone, I had lived in peace.”
“How vain and futile are all theoretical and philosophical constructions of the mind when compared to the brutal realities of the world of men! The European philosophers build the most rigorous and virtuous moral codes, and their politicians, brought up by these teachers, foment murders as a means of government.”
“Once I had overcome my rage against Vichy, the numerus clausus, and the Fascist Legion, I began to doubt the treason of France. To accept it would indeed have been unbearable. All my ambitions, my studies, and my life were founded on this choice. How much would I have to uproot in myself now? What would be left of me? It was in this dreadful moment that I finally caught a glimpse of my ruin. If I rejected what I was becoming would I be able to return to what I had been?”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1920-12-15 ) 15 December 1920, Tunis , French Tunisia
Died: 22 May 2020 (2020-05-22) (aged 99), Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
Occupations: Writer, essayist
Notable work: The Colonizer and the Colonized
Spouse: Marie-Germaine Dubach

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Image: Albert Memmi par Claude Truong-Ngoc décembre 1982.jpg

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date of birth: 1920-12-15
Commons category: Albert Memmi
name in native language: ألبير ممي
date of death: 2020-05-22
start of work period: 1953-00-00

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Albert Memmi (Arabic: ألبير ممّي; 15 December 1920 – 22 May 2020) was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian Jewish origins. A prominent intellectual, his nonfiction books and novels explored his complex identity as an anti-imperialist, deeply related to his ardent Zionism. He viewed Zionism as a form of "anti-colonialism."

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