Hallucination

About this book

Between the walls of 'the cursed apartment' as it was called, and in the darkness of a silent night swallowing memories, 'Hallucination' is born—not as any novel but as a stifled scream in the face of a pallid age. It is a journey into the corridors of Moroccan memory, digging into the details of 'Black Saturday' and the years of lead that followed, where reality mingles with myth and pain with dream. Mohamed Mouhaddar takes us on a journey spanning a quarter century, not to narrate dry history but to breathe soul into the sufferings of the committed intellectual who refuses silence in an age of oppression. Here, writing turns into a living testimony against sadism, and an attempt to mend the shards of a self ground in torture's basements. Through philosophical dialogues saturated with Nietzsche's spirit and Al-Ghazali's meditations, we trace a hero chasing the specter of a woman gone for three decades, searching in her silence and her two wakeful eyes for the ancient 'Ishtar,' and for the remains of a love that embraced existence's warmth before life's potholes maimed it. 'Hallucination' is an invitation to reconcile the self amid the rubble of disappointments, a deconstructive text sprayed with blood, posing.