Poetry
Les Fables du doute
Not translated into English
Noureddine Bousfiha · 1984
Synopsis
Poems in French, published in Paris in 1984 and reissued, expanded, under a longer title. According to Mouad Jbari, critic for La Vérité, the poet acts in them as a witness to the human condition: his lines go at times as far as the bursting of doubt, at times as far as certainty, mingling anger and revolt with the problem of the relations between the individual and society, with a reserve that lets despair show through. The 1984 edition is not described in its own right.
Context
The collection appeared in 1984 from Caractères, four years after a first book from the same publisher. An expanded edition appeared from Orion under the title Les Fables du doute et de la certitude, in 115 pages, with an afterword by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine. In 2021, Mouad Jbari praised a poetry that does not sacrifice work on the language, and a poet who reveals his depth only to patient readers.
Who it is for
Poems in French; the expanded edition is in bookshops, while the original of 1984 does not appear in the BnF catalogue.
Prizes and reception
Reissued and expanded thirty-seven years after its first publication, by a Moroccan publisher, Orion.
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