MEMBER BLOG TAG: moroccan literature
| Sunday, May 1, 2011 8:34PM | | | | Abdellah Taļa & Self-Mythology | Tags: Abdellah Taļa, Salvation Army, French Literature, Moroccan Literature, gay literature, Edmund White, Semiotext(e), Tel Quel
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Abdellah Taïa is a writer who reminds us of art's power to transcend boundaries and break barriers. Sartre famously wrote that genius is what man invents when he is looking for a way out; Taïa shows that courage also happens.
Taïa is the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. In a conversation with American novelist Dale Peck this Sunday afternoon, Taïa described his "coming out" experience--which required an incredible leap of faith.
In January 2006, Taïa was doing an interview with Tel Quel, an important magazine in Morocco. During this Tel Quel interview (some of which you can read in this English Al-Bab interview and this French Tel Quel... | | | | | |
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