The art of narrative deferral: Madani's L'histoire peut attendre.
L'histoire peut attendre, the sole novel authored by celebrated Moroccan poet Rachida Madani, is a complex, if not confounding, work, one that contests and overtly muses upon the implicit and explicit tenets of narrative construction. From the outset, the author weaves a text that catches readers of...
| Publicado en: | Neohelicon Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 631 - 639 |
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