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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date spring 1996) In the following review, Hibbard lauds the moral "shaping impulses" of Corruption, asserting that Ben Jelloun's text reveals the "endemic" social corruption in certain Arab countries.]...
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From: French Review[(essay date February 1991) In the following essay, Cazenave traces the central themes of age and gender in L'Enfant de sable and explores how the novel acts as a metaphor for the problems faced by Maghrebin authors...
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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: Victims and Victimization in French and Francophone Literature[(essay date 2005) In the essay below, Hamil discusses the social position of Moroccan women as it is presented in Ben Jelloun's La nuit de l'erreur. She argues that Ben Jelloun's depiction of the main female character,...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBy exploring the relations between Morocco and Spain, Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel Partir provides a critical stance on migration and intercultural exchanges between Africa and Europe that transcends a unilateral...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date winter 1991) In the following review, Mortimer discusses how Ben Jelloun utilizes the character of the ailing patriarch in Jour de silence à Tanger to create a "sober and poetic text of introspection and...
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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: Solitude and the Quest for Happiness in Vladimir Nabokov's American Works and Tahar Ben Jelloun's Novels[(essay date 2003) In the essay below, Périssé describes the quest for personal happiness in the works of Ben Jelloun as a search for lost cultural identity. Underscoring the alienation experienced by the characters in...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date autumn 1994) In the following review, Cooper calls L'Homme rompu a "remarkable novel" and praises the work's suspense, imagery, and narrative structure.] In his prefatory note the Moroccan author Tahar...
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From: Los Angeles Times[(review date 19 October 1995) In the following review, Eder describes how Ben Jelloun uses his sense of "social and moral acuteness" to corrupt the protagonist, as well as the readers, of his novel Corruption.] To...
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From: Middle East Journal[(review date summer 1988) In the following excerpt, Thatcher applauds Ben Jelloun's use of metaphor and imagery in The Sand Child, calling the novel "sensitive and perceptive."] All of these novels are thematically...
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From: French Review[(review date May 1996) In the following review, Fleurant praises Ben Jelloun's focus on complex gender relations in Le Premier amour est toujours le dernier, noting that Ben Jelloun is "a master of short fiction."]...
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From: College Literature[(essay date spring 2003) In the following essay, Running-Johnson analyzes Ben Jelloun's essay Alberto Giacometti & Ben Jelloun (1991). Running-Johnson is primarily interested in what the piece reveals about Ben...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date spring 1993) In the following review, Cooper discusses the pervasive power of the mafia in L'Ange aveugle and notes the recurring theme of "victimized childhood" throughout the collection.] After the 1990...
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From: Artforum International[(review date April 2009) In the following review of Leaving Tangier, Freeman describes how the desperation of poverty-stricken characters in Morocco forces many to consider prostitution and other forms of depravity to...
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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: World Literature Today[(interview date October 2008) In this interview, which took place in October of 2008, Ben Jelloun discusses migration and exile for an issue of World Literature Today devoted to those themes.] [Simon]: Since this...
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From: Los Angeles Times[(review date 11 April 1991) In the following review, Eder compliments Ben Jelloun's "telling, subtle and occasionally puzzling portrait" of the protagonist in Silent Day in Tangier.] To be dead is to be cut off from...
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From: French Cultural Studies[(essay date February 2008) In the following essay, Bourget argues that Jelloun and Meddeb unintentionally strengthen racist attitudes toward Muslims in France and fail to sufficiently probe the social strife surrounding...
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From: The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent: Religions and Conflicts in Francophone Literature from the Arab World[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Bourget investigates the relationship between metropolitan France and its North African immigrant populations by concentrating on the recurrent controversies surrounding Muslim...