穆罕默德·狄布是我国讀者熟悉的一位阿尔及利亚进步作家(关于他的生平和創作,请参看第47頁的《作家小傳》)。我刊过去曾几次介紹过他的短篇小説和詩。1959年年底,狄布发表了他的长篇小說《非洲的夏天》。这部作品向讀者剖示了阿尔及利亚战爭爆发后,阿尔及利亚人民和法国帝国主义进行的你死我活的斗爭的一个横断面,描写了阿尔及利亚的各个社会阶层,但是占全书中 Muhammad Dibb is a progressive Algerian writer familiar to our readers (for his biography and creation, see “Biography of the Writer” on page 47). I’ve read about his short stories and poems introduced several times in the past. In late 1959, Debou published his novel “The Summer of Africa.” This work shows the reader a cross-section of the struggle for survival and death of the Algerian people and French imperialism after the outbreak of the Algerian war, depicting the various social strata in Algeria, but covering the entire book