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Biskra (bēskrä`), city (1998 pop. 170,956), NE Algeria, at the foot of the Aurès Mts. It is a commercial center for the nomads of the surrounding region. Biskra was the Roman military base of Vescera; later it was an important Muslim town. After 1844 it served as a French base for operations in S Algeria. The surrounding oasis produces dates. Biskra a town and oasis in NE Algeria, in the Sahara. Pop.: 204 000 (2005 est.) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This is only one topic (unraveled in two chapters, one on the 1907 Blue Nude--which was subtitled Souvenir de Biskra only in 1931, a fascinating find in itself--and the other on the 1912-13 Moroccan paintings), but every major work, from Luxe, calme, et volupte, 1904-05, and The Joy of Life, 1905-06, to Dance II, 1909-10, and Music, 1910, is similarly recontextualized, restoring to Matisse the edge that recent scholarship had tended to blunt. The name derives from the town of Biskra in Algeria, though whether the first weavers of biskri had emigrated from Algeria to Djerba or whether Djerban weavers simply imitated the design of a (possibly defunct) type of cloth woven in Biskra, and perhaps traded to Djerba via Libya, remains a subject of future research. One example of the Gidean philosophical dichotomization is found in the French author's comment in Madeleine on the opposition between the "wonderful feminine figures solicitously watching over [his] childhood" (17), emblematic of a purely disincarnate love, and the "objects" of his carnal desires, such as the three schoolboys in the train to Biskra, Algeria, one of the locales of his discovery of his "pederastic" leanings, to which he returned during this honeymoon. |
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