A man returns to his country, Morocco, after the death of his mother. He is nourished by the exchanges he had, as in a dream, with his sisters and his former lover. To return to this country is to be overtaken by traumatic memories, sexual abuse, humiliation, and the complicit silence of an entire village. But finding this country also means seeing that certain things have not changed. Alternately animated by the energy of revenge or that of reconciliation, the book builds its own space, a bastion of tears, where missing and injured people can finally be mourned. The Bastion of Tears This is the title of Abdellah Taia’s new book, and it was published by Julliard.
A book about the destruction of childhood
Abdellah Taïa explains : “What motivates the violent radicalism expressed by the character of Youssef in my book is when he understands that his sisters and brothers, who are older than him, are getting closer to death, and he does not want to not that they die without there being this final confrontation between them He wants them to explain to him why they did not protect him from the rapes he suffered, from this planned rampage In fact, the subject. of this book, It’s profoundly the destruction of childhood, and Youssef wants something real to happen and for us to overcome all the blockages that pierce our hearts and screw up our intestines.”
The listener’s question
An inmate of the Versailles Women’s Prison and member of the Goncourt of the prisoners read Abdellah Taïa’s book. During the meeting organized on November 5 with the writer, she asked him if through this book, he had explored the questions posed by coming out.
The great game of musical pages
Today the music is in the book of Abdellah Taïa The Bastion of Tears (Julliard). This is the song Bahlam Maak de Najet Essaghira.
Archive
Omar Sharif, broadcast SynergyJean-Luc Hess, France Inter, 07/07/1995
Musical references
Lemon Lemon, You woke me up in my sleep
Leonie Leonie, Weed and Cartoons
Otto Benson Histamine
Lemon Lemon, Cataclope
Hit Essaghir, Bahlam Maak
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