Bibliograph

The punishment, Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

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The punishment, Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The punishment

Oclc number

1121603627

Responsibility statement

Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Series statement

A Margellos world republic of letters book

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

Table Of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Translator's Prefac -- 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

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