“THE NAKED NIGHT” BY ABDELRAHMAN ALAATRI

 

Moroccan sociologist and writer Abdelrahman Alaatri recently published a collection of short stories he titled “The Naked Night.” The eleven stories of the collection deal with the themes of despair and shattered dreams in flowing narratives that highlight today’s Moroccan reality. The writer brilliantly succeeded in conveying the hopelessness of his characters and suffusing the narration with a pointed realism without burdening the tone of the stories with bitterness. This collection of short stories is, in my opinion, of an exceptional literary caliber and needs to be exposed to an international audience through translation.