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| Original Title: | Die Stimmen von Marrakesch: Aufzeichnungen einer Reise. |
| ISBN: | 0714525804 (ISBN13: 9780714525808) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Morocco Marrakech (Marrakesh)(Morocco) |
Elias Canetti
Paperback | Pages: 104 pages Rating: 3.72 | 1685 Users | 165 Reviews
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Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh’s bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people who fill its bazaars, cafes, and streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the storytellers in the Djema el Fna, the armies of beggars ready to set upon the unwary, and the rituals of Moroccan family life. This is Marrakesh -described by one of Europe’s major literary intellects in an account lauded as "cosmopolitan in the tradition of Goethe" by the New York Times. "A unique travel book," according to John Bayley of the London Review of Books.
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| Title | : | The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit |
| Author | : | Elias Canetti |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 104 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2002 by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (first published 1968) |
| Categories | : | Travel. Nonfiction. Northern Africa. Morocco. Cultural. Africa. Literature. European Literature. German Literature. Nobel Prize |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 1685 Users | 165 ReviewsJudge Out Of Books The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
It's a synthetic diary of a very appealing place. Once finished, I've had the desire to read more about those stories.Canetti walks the city and takes in the masses of people. He notes the voices of camel drivers, beggars, school children, tired foreigners, Jewish job seekers. Small scenes and big observations, one could only wish it was longer.
[This book has been translated into English as The Voices of Marrakesh.]In Die Stimmen von Marrakesch (1967) Elias Canetti (1905-1994) takes us into the bazaars and alleyways of Marrakesh with his typically quiet and intensely observant manner. Visiting Marrakesh for the first time, he has deliberately made no preparations to learn about the city and its inhabitants. He wants to experience it all with as much innocence as is possible for an elderly man of the world. That isn't the way I travel,
Nobel Prize winner.....takes us on a tour of Morocco!Quick read...and enjoyable.
'The Voices of Marrakesh' is my first experience of Elias Canetti's writing, and I am hooked. It's a short, sweet book, of a wide-eyed westerner poking around a strange, exotic city, drinking in all the colour and the noise, finding wonders under every stone. The fourteen short chapters allow him to sample and drop subjects, and Canetti is the perfect camera: gently intrusive, fearless in his curiosity, whether it is through gatecrashing the aftermath of a wedding and flirting with the bride,
Although knowing Marrakech through the eyes of a writer is always interesting, Canetti managed to irritate me considerably with his obsession over women (and their beauty or lack of it) and his superiority complex masked under his patronizing remarks about the religion, economy, poverty, and family cultural aspects of this city. I am not sure, therefore, if I would recommend this reading to anyone, and whether I'd classify it lower. And I certainly won't be reading anything else from Canetti.
A must read before visiting Morocco and/or Marrakech. What Canetti analysed 40 years ago still realising in most parts of the country's daily routines.The book provides both deep insights and some helpful touristic guidance.
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