My affliction is great, and consolation is beautiful…
\nAnd I believe that God will compensate
\nWounds, captivity, longing, and alienation…
\nI carry, after that, a burden
\nAnd this morning, I am in favor…
\nBut my footsteps in the darkness are great<\/p>\n
If you want to know the cruelty of the jailer and the prison’s collusion against you, ask a prisoner or his family.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
They were imprisoned for attempting a coup against Moroccan King Hassan II. During the famous Skhirat coup on August 10, 1971<\/p>\n
Words did not elude Tahar Ben Jelloun to describe the pit\u2014the prison\u2014in which they were buried alive for 18 years.<\/p>\n
They never lost their faith in God, and their tongues remained moist with the Quran and good hadith.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
In the end, the jailer colludes with his prisoner, and the hope of freedom begins to grow, after they kill him.<\/p>\n
It is truly a dazzling novel, beyond description.<\/p>\n
Beautiful, painful, and insatiable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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