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Ramzi M. Salti (review date spring 1996)

SOURCE: Salti, Ramzi M. Review of Poésie complète: 1966-1995, by Tahar Ben Jelloun. World Literature Today 70, no. 2 (spring 1996): 456.

[In the following review, Salti argues that the publication of Poésie complète: 1966-1995 is “long-overdue” and speculates that, for Ben Jelloun, “poetry has always represented a medium of expression that no other literary genre can provide.”]

When Tahar Ben Jelloun became the first North African writer to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1987 for his novel La Nuit sacrée, he was instantly hailed by the francophone world for overcoming boundaries that had thus far barred certain non-French writers from one of France's most prestigious literary prizes. Although that unprecedented literary honor did much to secure a place for Ben Jelloun among France's leading novelists, it seemed somehow to overshadow the vast body of poetic...

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2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Jean-Louise Thatcher (review date summer 1988)
   2. Robin Buss (review date 27 January-2 February 1989)
   3. Adam Zameenzad (review date 19 November 1989)
   4. Mustapha Marrouchi (essay date winter 1990)
   5. Robin Buss (review date 15 June 1990)
   6. Mildred Mortimer (review date winter 1991)
   7. Odile Cazenave (essay date February 1991)
   8. Richard Eder (review date 11 April 1991)
   9. Tahar Ben Jelloun and Thomas Spear (interview date 25 May 1991)
   10. Aamer Hussein (review date 21 June 1991)
   11. Eric Sellin (review date autumn 1992)
   12. Danielle Chavy Cooper (review date spring 1993)
   13. John D. Erickson (essay date spring 1993)
   14. Marie Fayad (essay date December 1993)
   15. Danielle Chavy Cooper (review date autumn 1994)
   16. Brinda Mehta (essay date October 1994)
   17. James Campbell (review date 16 December 1994)
   18. Nada Elia (review date autumn 1995)
   19. Richard Eder (review date 19 October 1995)
   20. Allen Hibbard (review date spring 1996)
   21. Ramzi M. Salti (review date spring 1996)
   22. Kenneth Fleurant (review date May 1996)
   23. Eric Sellin (review date autumn 1998)
   24. Tahar Ben Jelloun and Shusha Guppy (interview date fall 1999)
   25. Eric Sellin (review date summer 2000)
   26. Michael Brett (review date 4 August 2000)
   27. Jamal Mahjoub (review date 17 August 2001)
   28. Publishers Weekly (review date 4 March 2002)
   29. Ziauddin Sardar (review date 17 February 2003)
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