The Three Cultures Foundation and the French Institute in Seville, in collaboration with the Cabaret Voltaire publishing house and the José Manuel Lara Foundation, are organising the presentation of The punishment from Tahar Ben Jelloun, one of the most internationally acclaimed Moroccan writers and a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Narrator and journalist, regular contributor to various media, poet, committed intellectual and essayist, he has received numerous awards, including the Prix Goncourt in 1987 for The sacred night and the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize for the commitment of his work to tolerance.
At The punishment, autobiographical account, Ben Jelloun recounts the ordeal of nineteen months' detention suffered by ninety-four students for having demonstrated peacefully through the streets of Morocco's main cities in March 1965. Tahar Ben Jelloun will be in conversation with Lorenzo Silva about what those long months of confinement were like, which forever shaped his twenties, nourished his conscience and secretly made him a writer. The breathtaking prose of The punishment it prompts us to reflect on the fragility of liberty. Activity included in the celebration of the tenth anniversary of Tres con libros.
Translation from French into Spanish will be provided.
Book sale and book signing after the presentation.
Free admission with prior reservation.
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