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| Original Title: | Cette aveuglante absence de lumière |
| Edition Language: | Arabic |
| Setting: | Morocco |
| Literary Awards: | Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2006), International Dublin Literary Award (2004) |
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Paperback | Pages: 223 pages Rating: 4.28 | 9916 Users | 2034 Reviews
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| Title | : | تلك العتمة الباهرة |
| Author | : | Tahar Ben Jelloun |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | الطبعة الرابعة |
| Pages | : | Pages: 223 pages |
| Published | : | 2004 by دار الساقي (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Northern Africa. Morocco |
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مصابي جليل، والعزاء جميل، ... وظني بأن الله سوف يديل جراح وأسر، واشتياق، وغربة... أحمل إني، بعدها، لحمول وإني، في هذا الصباح، لصالح،... ولكن خطي في الظلام جليل إذا أردتَ أن تعلَمَ قسوةَ السجّان، وتواطؤ السجن عليك، فأسأل سجين، أو ذويه إذا أردتَ أن تتذوَق صِدق المعاناة، وتتذوّق طعمَ الحياة الآخَر، فرجاءً لا تقرأ رواية عن الحبّ السرمديّ، ولكِن إقرأ في أدبِ السجون رواية الطاهر بن جلّون هذه، مقتبسة عن الحقيقة، يروي لنا سجيننا معاناته، في الزنزانة "ب" مع 23 سجين غيره، ويقصّ علينا بأسلوب "باهِر" موتَ المعظم الساحِق من أصدقائه، وظروف موتهم سُجِنوا لمحاولتهم الإنقلاب على الملك المغربي الحسن الثاني، في إنقلاب الصخيرات الشهير في 10 آب 1971 الكلمات لم تستعصِ على الطاهِر بن جلّون لوصف الحفرة -الحبس- الذي دفنوا فيهِ أحياء، على مدار 18 عاماً لم يفقدوا إيمانهم بالله، وبقيَت ألسنهم رطبى بالقرآن والحديثِ الحسن إرتقوا فوق عذاباتهم الجسمية، إرتقوا فوق الجوع، فوقَ التقتير، فوق الضيق، فوق العتمة، فوقَ العقارِب والصراصير، وفوقَ سخرية السجّان وفي النهايَة، يتواطؤ السجّان مع سجينه، ويبدأ نموّ أمل الحرية، بعدَ أن قتلوه هيَ فعلاً رواية باهِرة، فوقَ الوصف جميلة، مؤلمة، ولا ترتوي منهاRating Containing Books تلك العتمة الباهرة
Ratings: 4.28 From 9916 Users | 2034 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books تلك العتمة الباهرة
Eighteen years alone in a cell ten feet long, five feet wide and not high enough for a normal person to stand up straight. Also, no light. Ever. Prisoners were allowed to go outside only to bury one of their prisoners. An immense story of the struggle to fight the deadly enemies of hate and despair. The pain and grace of believing in an all merciful God there in that living death. The simple language of this story, the lack of drama (for lack of a better word) make this book a stylisticThe tree stump tells himself that he doesn't miss the height. He doesn't miss the owl that perches on his limb to let him know when it is light. No flowers, no birds or bees and hell no there aren't any roots. There's a wizened face squinting into the camera. The voice isn't used to the accompanying noise of the flowers, birds and bees. It falters in its over growth throat and it starts to say... What's this female voice speaking over it? Is that what the guy on the tv who has been in a cave in
تلك العتمة الباهرة I was fascinated by how he could arise upon the pain and embrace the suffering and struggling, his body was here but his mind and soul were in another world, enriching their insides by stories. They could give up their only food and drink in their dark prison hole just for the seek of a story from "Salim" that would drift them away, and at the last chapter where he had to be exposed to the light and being 're-born' just left me speechless! Quoting: " سليم يا صديقي ...أرجوك
If despair was a river, this book would be a boat on it.
Ben Jelloun's book is written from the perspective of Salim (although his name is referred to so infrequently I thought he was nameless for about half of the book). It's a novel full of suffering and much of what is described is made much more unpleasant by it being based on true accounts. It is not however a pure first hand account - even if it's veracity often feels as though it could be.The main focus of this novel is how the group of Moroccan cadets try to cope with the brutal conditions of
In 1971 a group of army officers staged an unsuccessful attempted coup detat against the Moroccan king, Hassan II during his 42nd birthday party at one of his palaces. Over a hundred people died at the scene but the king escaped. Whilst I know little about the king, I spent some time in the mid-1980s with some Moroccan students in France who hated the man with a passion but were mostly reluctant to go into too much detail (not that my schoolgirl French would have helped me very much). As is
This book is about the desert prisons in which King Hassan II of Morocco held political prisoners. The underground prisons had no light, hence the title of the book. Prisoners were given enough bread and water to keep them barely alive. Although it is a novel, the author wrote the book by working closely with a 18+ year survivor of the prison and includes the truth of his story underground.I just can't believe someplace like this actually existed in 1990. This story is so heartbreaking and
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