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The punishment / Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated by the french by Linda Coverdale.
De Gruyter Yale University Press eBook-Package Complete 2020 Available online
De Gruyter Yale University Press eBook-Package Complete 2020EBSCOhost Ebook Public Library Collection - North America Available online
EBSCOhost Ebook Public Library Collection - North America- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ben Jelloun, Tahar, author.
- Series:
- The Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political prisoners--Morocco--Biography.
- Authors, Moroccan--Biography.
- Morocco--History--1956-.
- Morocco.
- Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- An innocent man’s gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-25247-1
- OCLC:
- 1141500610
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