“You“a woman looking for an announcement”: one can imagine an echo of the title of David Grossman’s novel. This time, a woman hoped for news in Algeria: her husband’s release. In Sansal’s happily resolved affairs, there are not only scandals, there are long-term impacts that result: forgetfulness, accommodation. However, one woman challenged him in Algeria with her slow pace, her routine as a wife visiting a prisoner every week, her tenacity softened by politeness. During his months in prison in Algeria, the man, the writer, became a symbol – and being a symbol is always dangerous for life as a couple: it brings us too close to death, to the inscription, to the definitive. She, the writer’s wife, knew that. He then led different struggles of…
