Mohamed Choukri needs little artifice to turn his life into scenes and his biography into a novel. For him, and this is his uniqueness, writing is not arrangement and composition, but testimony. However, his testimony is not a triumphant banner for an external truth. It is a testament to the overwhelming chaos of a life unaware of itself, not seeking salvation. He doesn't need to provoke his imagination; he has lived the life that fictional characters often do. Not just the underworld, which literature struggles to capture, but the entire world in a single focal point: its good and evil, its highs and lows, its glory and decay. As in his previous novel, 'For Bread Alone,' he replaces literary craft with the raw power of life—an achievement possible only for someone like Choukri, deeply immersed in life's currents while observing it with a hidden, resentful eye.

• Publisher: Dar Al Saqi
• Author: Mohamed Choukri
• ISBN: 9781855167674
• Number of Pages: 248
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Cover Type: Paperback