A l’ombre des murailles

Description

Memoire d’une communauté disparue A l’Ombre des murailles illustre une mosaïque vivante de souvenirs qui relate toute une histoire familiale, dans le mellah (quartier juif) de Meknès au Maroc. Un quartier où les jnoun (esprits) terrorisaient la population et les diables (Anges de la Mort) ne faisaient aucune distinction entre enfants et parents, jeunes et vieux, bons et méchants, pauvres et riches, croyants et agnostiques…
Childhood memories" are forever imprinted on our consciousness. They come back in this book, as in dreams, with sharp, sometimes blurred and often bizarre images. The setting and characters are authentic. The time is the fifties and sixties of the last century. The narrative has a literary intention, the child chases the adult, urging him to tell the past, without complacency and without nostalgia. The story is woven in a universe of proverbs that have nourished the youth of the narrator. Beyond the story of a family and its secrets, this book perpetuates the "collective memory" of a community now scattered to the four corners of the world.