| Description |
vii, 151 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Margellos world republic of letters book |
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Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Note |
"Originally published as La punition, copyright © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2018"--Title page verso. |
| Contents |
Translator's Preface -- Off to El Hajeb -- Last Moments of Freedom -- Akka -- Medical Exam -- Punished by His Majesty -- Heavy Stones out in the Sun -- Maneuvers in the Rain -- Mohammed V Hospital -- An Evening chez Ababou -- The Convoy -- Ahermoumou -- On Sophisticated Brutality -- Daily Life -- Liberation Yes, Liberation No -- On the Outside -- June 5, 1971 -- The Surprise -- Translator's Notes -- Translator's Afterword |
| Summary |
"In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of them survived. This powerful portrait of the author's traumatic experience, written with a memoirist's immediacy, reveals both his helpless terror and his desperate hope to survive by drawing strength from his love of literature. Shaken to the core by his disillusionment with a brutal regime, unsure of surviving his ordeal, he stole some paper and began to secretly write, with the admittedly romantic idea of leaving some testament behind, a veiled denunciation of the evils of his time. His first poem was published after he was unexpectedly released, and his vocation was born."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1947-
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Authors, Moroccan -- Biography.
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Political prisoners -- Morocco -- Biography.
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Morocco -- History -- 1956-
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Demonstrations -- Morocco.
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FICTION -- Literary.
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Authors, Moroccan. (OCoLC)fst00822236
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Political prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01069636
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Morocco. (OCoLC)fst01205592
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Author |
Coverdale, Linda, translator.
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| Added Title |
Punition. English
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| ISBN |
0300243022 (hardcover) |
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9780300243024 (hardcover) |
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