Le Chemin de ses voeux

L'auteur analyse les aspects cruciaux de la vie nationale mauritanienne au cours des trois dernières années du règne du colonel Ould Taya (2003-2005). Des questions centrales comme l'exercice de la démocratie, la justice, l'éducation, sont abordées sur un ton incisif. Les tares et les dysfonctionnements révélés ici montrent leur impact négatif sur la bonne marche des institutions du pays, sur son développement économique, son évolution sociale et son essor culturel.

Through a series of talks presented by students belonging to different regions of Mauritania, the author strives to shed light on the ethnic and sociocultural diversity of the country. By the same token, he throws into sharp relief social ills, such as frequent divorces, polygamy, early maririage, girls force-feeding etc, still wide spread in the country.

In this book, Pr. Mouhamed Lemine Ould EL KETTAB examines two samples of the literary works of two American writers: the novelist Mark Twain and the literary critic Archibald McLeish. In the first part of the book, the author delineates how in his two novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain highlights the refreshing beauty of childhood's innocence as contrasted with the obnoxious sophistication of the romantic culture and uses the spontaneous judgement of an unschooled urchin, Huck Finn, to measure the validity of the social values and to assess the ethic principals that the 19th Century deep South American society went by for decades. In the second part, Pr. Mouhamed Lemine Ould EL KETTAB strives to fathom the critical approach of Archibald McLeish to poetry as a mode of artistic expression; he scrutinizes and often times takes issue with some of the presuppositions on which A. McLeish's grounds his critical tenets and bases his overall conception of poetry.