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Le spleen de Casablanca - Poèmes
French
Hardcover
Published October 13, 1997
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Abdellatif Laâbi
115 books60 followersArabic: عبد اللطيف اللعبي
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.
Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966. It was considered as a meeting point of some poets who felt the emergency of a poetic stand and revival, but which, very quickly, crystallized all Moroccan creative energies: painters, film-makers, men of theatre, researchers and thinkers. It was banned in 1972, but throughout its short life, it opened up to cultures from other countries of the Maghreb and those of the Third World.
Abdellatif Laâbi was imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes of opinion" (for his political beliefs and his writings) and served a sentence from 1972-1980. He was, in 1985, forced into exile in France.[2]
Abdellatif Laâbi is a Moroccan poet, born in 1942 in Fes, Morocco.
Laâbi, then teaching French, founded with other poets the artistic journal Souffles, an important literary review in 1966. It was considered as a meeting point of some poets who felt the emergency of a poetic stand and revival, but which, very quickly, crystallized all Moroccan creative energies: painters, film-makers, men of theatre, researchers and thinkers. It was banned in 1972, but throughout its short life, it opened up to cultures from other countries of the Maghreb and those of the Third World.
Abdellatif Laâbi was imprisoned, tortured and sentenced to ten years in prison for "crimes of opinion" (for his political beliefs and his writings) and served a sentence from 1972-1980. He was, in 1985, forced into exile in France.[2]
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November 22, 2017
en un seul mot " wow" 😍
September 10, 2020
This is the third work I've read from Moroccan author Abdellatif Laâbi. While I loved reading the author's novel "The bottom of the Jar", I didn't enjoy reading his poem "The Eye and the night".
However, I loved the above title, which is one of the 11 poetry booklets of the author "Oeuvre Poétique Tome 2", published in 2018. This book is composed of 65 poems, long and short, and about anything and everything: life, love, cities, countries, events, behaviors, despotism, significant and meaningless things...
Reading this book, which spans 2 decades, really opened my eyes about poetry and gives a detailed insight of the full extent of poetry's implication into life. The author magnificently and magically utilizes words and expressions to write poems, which resembles painting art and stir emotions out of a reader's heart and soul.
However, I loved the above title, which is one of the 11 poetry booklets of the author "Oeuvre Poétique Tome 2", published in 2018. This book is composed of 65 poems, long and short, and about anything and everything: life, love, cities, countries, events, behaviors, despotism, significant and meaningless things...
Reading this book, which spans 2 decades, really opened my eyes about poetry and gives a detailed insight of the full extent of poetry's implication into life. The author magnificently and magically utilizes words and expressions to write poems, which resembles painting art and stir emotions out of a reader's heart and soul.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews