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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy encounter with the Sahara surpassed by far all my expectations. Perhaps I was not sufficiently prepared: when nearing the gates of strange cities one must not be porous, if one does not wish to be completely lost...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed1. The millenial gallop grows faint under the wing sheath of the wind . . . Honored guests of the wind, escorted by the great winds of exile, by shadows of huge plumes, The dust columns have come from tree saps...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date autumn 1998) In the following review, Sellin compliments Ben Jelloun's lyrical prose but argues that La Nuit de l'erreur is too derivative and dependent on the formulaic narrative structure established in...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date autumn 1992) In the following review, Sellin offers a positive assessment of Les Yeux baissés, arguing that the novel succeeds on both a narrative and allegorical level.] Sometimes authors fade after...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMaghrebian literature is the literature of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. 'Maghreb' is also the Arabic world for Morocco and comes from the word that means 'the place where the sun sets,' to distinguish it from the...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSpoken Place a most extreme faith in which sheets which silences do you lull to sleep this snow and (without saying why) calmly bestow upon it your down-soft breath which prey surrenders which...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn Algiers Near the Bibliotheque Nationale In the heart of the city There is a large garden With at its center A little pool And around it Flowers Trees Benches Where Old men Old...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPoet Joanna Goodman's contributions to the poetry world are discussed. Her lyrical style, innovative use of metaphor, and her portrayal of fatherhood are examined. Russell Conwell, the Baptist minister who founded...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewedyou possess no soul you possess no heart you possess no body soul heart body empty and sterile categories if I use the word body it is because I bear hatred for the soul's perversion if I use the...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMimouna is a very beautiful young woman who lives in a very small hamlet in southern Morocco. Her breasts are firm and her eyes are black. She is always smiling and pays no attention to the gabbing of the older women...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewedputs a bit more darkness in our eyes a bit more snow in our hair what have we retained of the embraces the naked entwinings of our nights what taste is left on our lips of all the fruit we tasted and...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEver since their return from exile it has been raining splinters of stone just prior to the massacre shall they deliver from the confines of shadows the light that burgeons in them light in equipoise...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Girls of Tangier have a star on each breast. Accomplices of the night and the wind, they live in seashells on the shores of love. Neighbors of the sun, that blows morning to them like a teardrop in the mouth, they...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed1. I tried to raise a fine garden With all the flowers of my soul And all the trees worthy of envy: Trellises with crimson grapes, Peaches the shade and lucence of amber. . . The basil and the rose are...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAn author's creativity is inextricably linked to that writer's natural surroundings, landscape, and external stimuli. Caribbean literature, for example, reflects this symbiotic relationship between mankind and natural...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date summer 2000) In the following review, Sellin describes Labyrinthe des sentiments as a "haunting and unusual book," asserting that the novel's focus on one main narrative distinguishes it from Ben Jelloun's...
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From: World Literature Today[In the following excerpt, Sellin examines Le maitre de la Parole in the context of Laye's earlier work.] The publication of Le maitre de la Parole: Kouma lafolo kouma ... was something of a literary event, for the...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA whole host tows its listenings out to the depths of the rolling night For one must lay claim silently to luminous waves of breakers and to secure an escort of obsequious pain of a prophet afoot. I ascend to the...
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From: Books Abroad[(essay date 1971) In the following review, Sellin focuses on the surreal elements that “fall naturally within Carballido’s purview” and argues that the playwright’s work offers “a rich and stirring dramatic...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 41, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewedi am living--my exile of cold and fog i live in expectation waiting--waiting WAITING to rediscover my language erased by the torture of acculturation in the vaults of my being my language of and pious...