Tahar Ben Jelloun
Paperback | Pages: 223 pages Rating: 4.28 | 9916 Users | 2034 Reviews
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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) |
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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 منها
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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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Ratings: 4.28 From 9916 Users | 2034 ReviewsDiscuss Appertaining To Books تلك العتمة الباهرة
This book is the story of a political prisoner imprisoned by the Morrocan government in horrific conditions at a secret prison. It is the novelized retelling of a true story of this man's experiences. Held in an underground cell without light, so cramped that he could not even stand straight, he was kept incarcerated for over two decades for being an unwitting participant in a failed coup. Many of his compatriots died over the course of their imprisonment, he and a small few handful of othersIn 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
I can't complete this book, very painful !
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
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 stylistic
This Blinding Absence of Light traces the events that took place after the coup detatagainst Hassan II in July 1971 through the eyes of one of its survivors, Selim. While theputsch deplorably failed, it was also the inception of 18 years of humiliation anddehumanization in the innards of Tazmamart, an underground prison in the depth of theMoroccan South. In it 58 soldiers, most of which did not even know at the time of their arrestthat they took part in a coup against the King of Morocco,
This book, read for an Around-the-World reading challenge (Morocco), exceeded my expectations. I was wary of reading nearly 200 pages of prison life. I also am not fond of modern French literature because I find the language too pretentious. Ben Jelloun's prose, however, is straightforward, making the narrator's experience immediate and accessible. Strangely, the last few pages, which describe the narrator's return, are most horrifying.Two especially arresting passages: I need words, I dream of
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