Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mohamed Choukri

Prefacio de

Roger Allen

Traducido por

Jonas Elbousty

Editorial

Georgetown University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

168

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781647124779

Faces (en Inglés)

Mohamed Choukri (Autor) · Roger Allen (Prefacio de) · Jonas Elbousty (Traducido por) · Georgetown University Press · Tapa Blanda

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The first English translation of one of the novels that helped change modern Arab literatureMohamed Choukri, one of the most important writers of modern Moroccan literature, grew up in extreme poverty in Tangier and was illiterate until the age of twenty. After learning to read, he realized that "writing could also be a way to expose, to protest against those who have stolen my childhood, my teenage-hood and a piece of my youthfulness." His vivid portrayals of marginalized people, which had been considered taboo, led to the censorship of his work and a cultural backlash in the Middle East.In Faces, the third book in his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographical works, he describes gritty events, extreme poverty, prostitution, violence, sexual revelry, deprivation, and abuse. It is through his storytelling that Choukri reflects on human nature, love, and kindness-emphasizing the need for community and collaboration. Faces humanizes those undergoing poverty and places the blame for the violence they encounter squarely on colonial forces and the resulting postcolonial government, while opening literary traditions to a new style of writing.Choukri's friendships with Tennessee Williams, Paul Bowles, Jean Genet, and other writers brought him attention in his lifetime. But Faces--his last novel, which was originally published in Arabic in 1996--has remained untranslated until now. In English for the first time, Jonas Elbousty's translation allows Choukri's work to reach wider international discussions of contemporary Arab literature.