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Flaming bitumen: romancing the Algerian war.
From: Harper's Magazine
Date: 20070201
Author:Stark, Sam
A Savage War of Peace, by Alistair Horne. New York Review Books. 608 pages. $19.95.
After failing at agriculture, chemistry, medicine, zoology, paleontology, and archaeology, the two bumbling eponyms of Bouvard and Pecuchet, Gustave Flaubert's unfinished encyclopedia of the middlebrow mind, take up the study of recent French history. They start with The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, a bestseller published in ten volumes between 1823 and 1827, which gives them flashbacks, of a sort: "Old men had talked to them of 1793, and memories which were almost ...
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