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Download or Read eBook The Hospital PDF written by Ahmed Bouanani and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Hospital
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 134
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ISBN-10 : 9780811225779
ISBN-13 : 0811225771
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Hospital by : Ahmed Bouanani

Book excerpt: A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic “When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive…” So begins Ahmed Bouanani’s arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouanani’s own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming the lives of a motley cast of inmates one by one; childhood memories and fantasies of resurrection flash in and out of the narrator’s consciousness as the hospital transforms before his eyes into an eerie, metaphorical space. Somewhere along the way, the hospital’s iron gate disappears. Like Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl, the works of Franz Kafka—or perhaps like Mann’s The Magic Mountain thrown into a meat-grinder—The Hospital is a nosedive into the realms of the imagination, in which a journey to nowhere in particular leads to the most shocking places.


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