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My affliction is great, and consolation is beautiful…
And I believe that God will compensate
Wounds, captivity, longing, and alienation…
I carry, after that, a burden
And this morning, I am in favor…
But my footsteps in the darkness are great
If you want to know the cruelty of the jailer and the prison’s collusion against you, ask a prisoner or his family.
If you want to taste the sincerity of suffering and savor the flavor of another life, please don’t read a novel about eternal love, but read prison literature.
This novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun is based on the truth. Our prisoner recounts his suffering in Cell B with 23 other prisoners. He recounts, in a dazzling style, the deaths of the overwhelming majority of his friends and the circumstances of their deaths.
They were imprisoned for attempting a coup against Moroccan King Hassan II. During the famous Skhirat coup on August 10, 1971
Words did not elude Tahar Ben Jelloun to describe the pit—the prison—in which they were buried alive for 18 years.
They never lost their faith in God, and their tongues remained moist with the Quran and good hadith.
They rose above their physical suffering, above hunger, above scarcity, above distress, above darkness, above scorpions and cockroaches, and above the mockery of the jailer.
In the end, the jailer colludes with his prisoner, and the hope of freedom begins to grow, after they kill him.
It is truly a dazzling novel, beyond description.
Beautiful, painful, and insatiable.
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