Scripta Mediterranea (E-Journal)

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Vol 29 (2008 [2011])

Gerson, Frederick

English

Voltaire et le sentiment de l'amitie à travers sa correspondance, son théâtre et ses contes

Gangutia, Concepción Gil

Technical and Theoretical Problems in the Medical Translations From Greek to Arabic (VIII-XC)

Cassola, Arnold

The Vision of the Muslim in Early Maltese Poetry

Dendle, Brian J.

78 Reviews 
One of the strengths of Dr. Snoussi's study is his evaluation of the context 
in which Judeo-Arabic journals were published. The censorship imposed by the 
press law of January 1897 was not responsible for the death of Judeo-Arabic 
journals, which had already succumbed to the strains of Twansa-Grana dis-
putes, generational conflict, tiny circulation, and the appearance of Jewish jour-
nals published in French. Tunisian anti-Semitism for Snoussi was a Christian 
phenomenon, found in French anti-Dreyfusards and poor Italian colonists. 
Even before the Dreyfus Affair, Marc Fournel had claimed: "le juif est un animal 
nuisible envoye par le Diable pour nuir a la Tunisie" (Le Christianisme et l'Islam 
dans l'Afrique septentrionale, Paris, 1886). The colonial power feared the Italian 
sympathies of the Grana. Anti-Jewish riots in 1898 and 1899 also made the pub-
lication of journals in Hebraic characters inadvisable. 
Dr. Snoussi's text is accompanied by copious notes, bibliography, and an 
index. 
Brian J. Dendle 
University of Kentucky 
Enrique Nieto. Con dos sentidos. Una selecci6n de art(culos publicados en prensa 
(1975-2003). Antologfa de Victoria Vidal Navarro. Murcia: Fundaci6n 
Cajamurcia, 2003. 
Enrique Nieto made his career as a teacher in Cartagena, is an artist - the work 
under review is illustrated in black and white drawings by the author- , and 
has for many years commented on local society in the press of Cartagena and 
Murcia. Con dos sentidos contains selected articles written between 1975 and 
2003. Nieto provides penetrating vignettes of the social transformations- not 
always favourable- that have overwhelmed Spain in the last quarter of a cen-
tury. He notes the unplanned, urban sprawl of La Manga, ecological destruc-
tion, societal indifference to the plight of immigrants and the poor, teenage 
slang, bureaucratic jargon, pollution and industrial decline in Cartagena, the 
isolation of the old, the selfishness of a consumer society, and cultural impov-
erishment. 
Nieto offers a first-hand account of an underfunded education system: 
overcrowded classes of up to forty pupils, masificaci6n in universities, unmoti-
vated students, insufficient classroom space and supplies, bureaucratic 
demands, inappropriate programs especially in the (now reformed) Formaci6n 
Profesional, the decline in prestige of the humanities, and inappropriate univer-
sity entrance examinations. Despite overwork and stress, most Spanish are con-
scientious professionals. Nieto notes the problems faced by many Spanish 
teenagers: the emotional difficulties of the children of divorced or unemployed 
parents, alcoholism and drug addiction, the inner void of overprogrammed 
youth, aggressively foul language, violent behavior, truancy, lack of career 
opportunities, and a sexual freedom which is often accompanied by sexual 
ignorance and emotional immaturity. Nieto also understands the difficulties of 
parents valiantly coping with financial pressures and struggling to come to 
terms with a generation gap that is perhaps more pronounced in Spain than in 
North America. 
Less interesting for the non-Murcian reader are Nieto's at first gently iron-
Reviews 79 
ic but later somewhat harsher portrayals of the workings of the Asamblea 
Regional between 1990 and 1993. Nieto favorably compares the action of Fraga 
in Galicia to the petty squabbles of many Murcian politicians (19-X-1993). Nieto 
seemingly respects above all qualities he found in the mayor of Cartagena, 
Antonio Vallejo: serenidad, falta de agresividad, buenas maneras (p. 427). 
It is difficult to praise sufficiently this collection of articles. Nieto writes 
with a pleasantly colloquial style. Never strident, always compassionate, with a 
sense of humor akin to that of the British, he treats with indulgence human 
weaknesses and is tenderly affectionate toward those he portrays, whether 
politicians, teenagers, housewives, or functionaries. Con dos sentidos is a faithful 
reflection of the concerns of middle-class Spaniards from the heady days of the 
transici6n to the present affluent -but spiritually invaluable source of contem-
porary Spanish social history. 
Brian J. Dendle 
Luchon, Haute-Garonne 


Enrique Nieto. Con dos sentidos. Una selección de artículos publicados en prensa (1975-2003). Antología de Victoria Vidal Navarro. Murcia: Fundación Cajamurcia, 2003.

Bazán, Tina Pereda

The Body as Weapon in Insolación by Emilia Pardo

Fisher, Kevin D.

The 'aegeanization' of Cyprus at the End of the Bronze Age: An Architectural Perspective

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List of Abbreviations

Sunkenberg, Jenna

Between Reality and Fiction: Paul Ricoeur's La Métaphore Vive

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