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Article: Ben Jelloun, Jean Genet, and cultural identity in The Street for Just One: Alberto Giacometti.(Critical Essay)
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- March 22, 2003
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Contemporary Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun and Jean Genet, the provocative postwar writer of France, have intertwined biographies, both in their personal lives and their work. Ben Jelloun, born in Morocco in 1944, went to France to pursue doctoral studies in social psychiatry in the late sixties. While completing his degree, he began what has become a distinguished career in both fiction and non-fiction. A highly prolific author, he is best known for his narrative- and gender-bending novels, The Sandchild (L'Enfant de sable, 1985) and its sequel, The Sacred Night (La Nuit sacree, 1987), winner of the prestigious French literary award, the Prix Goncourt. Ben Jelloun has ...
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