writers poetry and literature

I read the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe in french translation. I used a bilingual version which allowed me to compare the two versions. For those who does not know the text, it's all about a widower who mourns the loss of his wife Leonora, who receives at midnight visit from a crow that takes an oracle. Amazingly, the bird can talk but he can say "never again". As the widow asked about his possibilities to see his beloved, the raven responds this expression and the poor man dies. It...

A dissertation ('thesis') is a document of a author`s research and is submitted in support of candidature for a degree or professional qualification The drafting of the introduction for a dissertation: Write the introduction and pay attention to these three steps: The contextualization of the topic: we begin with an information concerning any problems or domains in which the subject lies, for example:-A problematic feature of the literary genre concern - The writer's personal preoccupation in...

For Bread Alone (original title: Al-Al-khoubz hafi) is a novel by Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri published in 1973. It has an important status in Arab literature, because it is one of the first texts addressing taboo subjects in the North African society of the time, such as drugs, violence or sexuality. For Bread Alone is openly autobiographical text. It recounts the childhood and adolescence of Mohamed, who has followed his family in his exodus from the Rif to Tangier. The text takes the...

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: طاهر بنجلون) is a french writer and poet born in Morocco in Fez on 1 December 1944. After attending an elementary school bilingual Arabic-speaking, he attended the French school in Tangier at the age of eighteen years and then went on to study philosophy at the University Mohammed V in Rabat where he wrote his first poems, Men gathered under the shroud of silence (1971). He then taught philosophy in Morocco, but had to leave for France in 1971 for the teaching of...

Driss Chraibi One of the great Moroccan writers in French language(1926-2007). He was famous by his novel past simple (1954) the novel that brought the Moroccan literature in modernity. Driss Chraibi was born in 1926 in Mazagan (today Al-Jadida). After high school in Casablanca, he studied chemistry in France where he settled in 1945. He practiced all professions before becoming an engineer. The release of Past Simple in 1954, is very well received by French critics, but much less by Moroccan...