Nabile Farès, ethnologist, philosopher, dramaturge, poet, novelist and psychoanalyst was born in Collo (Kabylia peninsula, Algeria) in 1940. Thus he was a teenager at the time of the student demonstrations and the reciprocal massacres (French forces and settlers versus the Algerians) which began the Algerian War (the war of independence, 1954-62). Farès’s father sent him to France to study—and to be safe. Nabile was one of the few Algerian students in Paris to choose to return to the struggle. He was on the east side of the Tunisian border—where FLN (National Liberation Front and their army) camps operated—when the war ended. Many Algerian writers saw the next years—eventually spanning decades—as a disappointment, and then a betrayal. It is this betrayal that haunts the trilogy of novels that form the core of Farès' work, Discovery of the New World. Praise for Discovery of the New World In Francophone Maghrebian belles-lettres, Nabile Farès looms as the most gifted articulator of his generation of a fecund, all-encompassing poetics of love, language, identity, and politics. In Peter Thompson, Farès found his match—a talented articulator of his oeuvre in the English language. Thompson’s subtle and fluid translation is a boon to Anglophone readers and scholars alike. —Hédi Abdel-Jaouad, author of Les Fugues de Barbarie: Les Ecrivains Maghrébins et le Surréalisme For Farès, throughout his life, his new world was and would forever be shaped in exile; a world forever in-process, following lines of flight among the signs, words and symbols of Algeria. —Valérie Orlando, author of The Algerian New Novel [I]n Farès’s work the boundary no longer falls between history and individual memory but rather between punctual systems (history/memory) and multilinear or diagonal organizations that no longer refer to the eternal, or even to the historical… but to a becoming of both history and memory. —Réda Bensmaïa, author of Experimental Nations Farès, to me, represents the writer-as-historian much as the American poet Charles Olson had tried to define and emulate him: not as post-fact outside observer-scholar or -fictioneer, often in the pay (actual or symbolic) of the victorious party, but as one who, following the Greek etymology of the term “istorin,” acts to find out for oneself. —Pierre Joris, co-editor of The University of California Book of North African Literature With his wonderful translation of Nabile Farès’s Discovery of the New World, composed in an iconoclastic, fragmented, and ricocheting style, Peter Thompson has rescued the trilogy from an obscure cache of Algerian writing that was unfairly marginalized by multiple factions during the many decades of socio-cultural trauma and the consequent denial, failed reconciliation, and systemic historical amnesia that plagued Northern Africa and parts of Southern Europe. This trilogy explores the causes and the effects of that trauma as perceived by one troubled individual psyche through the multiple filters of sundry surrogate narrators. Instructive and intriguing reading! —Eric Sellin, author of The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation—Reflections on The Art of Translating Verse A Landmark of Postcolonial Literature, for the First Time in English. Nabile Fares, ethnologist, philosopher, dramaturge, poet, novelist and psychoanalyst was born in Collo (Kabylia peninsula, Algeria) in 1940. Thus he was a teenager at the time of the student demonstrations and the reciprocal massacres (French forces and settlers versus the Algerians) which began the Algerian War (the war of independence, 1954-62). Farès's father sent him to France to study—and to be safe. Nabile was one of the few Algerian students in Paris to choose to return to the struggle. He was on the east side of the Tunisian border—where FLN (National Liberation Front and their army) camps operated—when the war ended. Many Algerian writers saw the next years—eventually spanning decades—as a disappointment, and then a betrayal. It is this betrayal that haunts the trilogy of novels that form the core of Farès' work, DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD (Dialogos, 2021). He is also the author of A PASSENGER FROM THE WEST (Dialogos / Lavender Ink, 2018) and EXILE: WOMEN'S TURN (Dialogos / Lavender Ink, 2017). He died in Paris in 2016.