The Punishment Hardback
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Part of the The Margellos World Republic of Letters series
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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 narrator’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 secretly to 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:23/06/2020
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- ISBN:9780300243024
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:168 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:23/06/2020
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- ISBN:9780300243024