Abdelkebir Khatibi (b. 1938, El Jadida, Morocco) is a Moroccan literary critic, and novelist. He is a member of the young generation of the 1960s that challenged the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghrib were being built. Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... El Jadida (الجديدة) is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, in the province of El Jadida. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Maghrib is an Arabic term for of the setting (sun); from the root ghuroob (to set; to be hidden). It is also used in a manner similar to the metaphorical use of to be eclipsed, which is used in the English language. ...

He pursued his sociology degree at the Sorbonne publishing his doctoral dissertation, Le Roman maghrébin (The Maghribian Novel) in 1968. His dissertation, a study of the novel, raised the question of how a novelist could avoid propagandizing in the context of a postrevolutionary society. The Sorbonne, Paris, in a 17th century engraving The historic University of Paris (French: ) first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was in 1970 reorganised as 13 autonomous universities (University of Paris I–XIII). ...

Bibliography

Books

• Bilan de la sociologie au Maroc (1968)
• Études sociologiques sur le Maroc (1971)
• La Mémoire tatouée (Tattooed Memory, 1971) ISBN 2-264-00220-4
• La Blessure du nom propre (1974)
• Le Livre du sang (The Book of Blood, 1979) Gallimard ISBN 2-07-028677-0
• De la mille et troisième nuit (Of the Thousand and Third Night, 1980)
• Amour bilingue (Love in Two Languages, 1983)
• Triptyque de Rabat (Rabat Triptych, 1993)
• Un été à Stockholm' (A summer in Stoclkholm 1992), Flamarion ISBN 2-08-066473-5

Plays

• La Mort des artistes (The Death of the Artists, 1964)
• Le Prophète voilé (The Veiled Prophet, 1979)

References

• Khatibi, Abdelkebir. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2005. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 16 Nov. 2005 <http://search.eb.com/eb/article-9045297>.

The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general encyclopedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Abdelkebir Khatibi works