Roblès, Emmanuel

Roblès, Emmanuel

▪ Algerian-French author
born May 4, 1914, Oran, Algeria
died Feb. 22, 1995, Boulogne, France

      Algerian-French novelist and playwright whose works came out of the war and political strife that he witnessed in Europe and North Africa. A common guiding theme in his writings is the stubborn resistance of heroes to their political or social tormentors. The Roblès' rebel, however, knows how to savour his short-lived happiness before irreversible fate seals him in.

      Roblès, whose parents were of Spanish descent, graduated from the Teachers College (École Normale) in Algiers. During World War II, Roblès served in the French air force and as a Spanish translator and war correspondent for the Supreme Allied Command of the Mediterranean operations. He worked with Albert Camus, whom he had met in 1937, as a reporter for the liberal daily Alger-Républicain. He then became cofounder of and frequent contributor to the daily Espoir-Algérie. In 1958 the escalation of the Algerian war forced him into exile in Paris, where he worked to discover and publish new African talent.

      Roblès published his first novel, L'Action, in 1938. Wider recognition came with his fourth novel, Les Hauteurs de la ville (1948; “City Heights”), in which a young Arab worker commits a lonely act of revenge against the fascists responsible for the deportation and death of Algerians during World War II. Roblès achieved international success with Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1952; “It Calls Itself Dawn”; Eng. trans. Dawn on Our Darkness), a novel set in Sardinia and concerning a man caught between love and duty. Le Vésuve (1961; Vesuvius) and Un Printemps d'Italie (1970; “A Springtime in Italy”) are love stories set in wartime Italy. His later novels include Venise en hiver (1981; “Venice in Winter”), set against a background of political terrorism, and L'Herbe des ruines (1992).

      Montserrat (1948), Roblès' most popular drama, is the story of a young Spanish officer who chooses to die for the liberation of Venezuela rather than reveal the hiding place of Simón Bolívar. Other plays include La Vérité est morte (1952; “Truth Is Dead”), about the Spanish Civil War, and Plaidoyer pour un rebelle (1965; Case for a Rebel), concerning terrorism.

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