The Punishment by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

In the mornings we attend classes in military matters taught by lieutenants who also speak French correctly. Discipline. Silence in the ranks. We are terrorized for no clear reason. Again I ask myself, Will we stay here forever? For a few months? To be sent somewhere else? To go fight in Algeria? We don’t know anything. The lieutenants are as terrified as we are. Commandant Hamadi doesn’t joke around with the rules. We all live under his dictatorship, even if we don’t often see him.

Our anguish grows. We have passed from elementary brutality to something else again, something disquieting. Among ourselves we call Hamadi the Aribi, which means “the hero of the film.”

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