“I realized that dispelling pain is only done by imagining a pain more severe and more terrible.”

Another novel discussing the Tazmamart prison, it recounts the tragedy of prisoner Aziz Binebine, 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, documented by Tahar Ben Jelloun after Aziz shared his pain, asking Jelloun to pen these events. Jelloun portrayed them incredibly!

Jelloun was deeply moved, trembling and sweating as he wrote, experiencing moments of hysterical crying due to the psychological pain endured by Aziz and others. Despite the novel's success in France, survivors of Tazmamart criticized Jelloun for writing about the events without living them, accusing him of seeking fame.

Nonetheless, it remains a remarkable novel, characterized by creative style, not just a documentation of events!

In 'Blinding Darkness,' agony grows into injuries and fractures of a person trapped in the shadows of injustice and darkness, resulting from the liberation of thought and withdrawal of opinions, cascading words... These musings place the writer in narrative flows, recounting real events inspired by one of Tazmamart's detainees.