“I realized that dispelling pain can only be done by imagining a greater and more terrifying pain.”

Another novel about the "Tazmamart" prison, telling the tragedy of inmate Aziz Binebine, who was involved in the Skhirat coup. He spent two years in Moroccan prisons before being transferred to the hell of Tazmamart for another 18 years.

Published by Dar Al Saqi in 2002, this time documented by Tahar Ben Jelloun. After Aziz was released, he approached Jelloun to narrate his agony, asking him to document these events with his pen. Jelloun portrayed it unbelievably!

Jelloun was so affected by Aziz’s story that he trembled and broke into hysterical crying while writing. Despite the success of the novel in France, survivors of Tazmamart who documented their experiences accused Jelloun of seeking fame as he hadn't lived through the events himself.

Nonetheless, the novel is remarkable, especially due to its creative style, as it was not just a documentation of events!

In "This Blinding Absence of Light," suffering grows into wounds and fractures of a man isolated in the depths of injustice, inspired by the testimony of a Tazmamart prison detainee.