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Title	:	The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
Author	:	Elias Canetti
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 104 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2002 by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Northern Africa. Morocco. Cultural. Africa. Literature. European Literature. German Literature. Nobel Prize

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Elias Canetti

Paperback | Pages: 104 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 1685 Users | 165 Reviews

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Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh’s bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people who fill its bazaars, cafes, and streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the storytellers in the Djema el Fna, the armies of beggars ready to set upon the unwary, and the rituals of Moroccan family life. This is Marrakesh -described by one of Europe’s major literary intellects in an account lauded as "cosmopolitan in the tradition of Goethe" by the New York Times. "A unique travel book," according to John Bayley of the London Review of Books.

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Original Title:	Die Stimmen von Marrakesch: Aufzeichnungen einer Reise.
ISBN:	0714525804 (ISBN13: 9780714525808)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Morocco Marrakech (Marrakesh)(Morocco)

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Ratings: 3.72 From 1685 Users | 165 Reviews

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A must read before visiting Morocco and/or Marrakech. What Canetti analysed 40 years ago still realising in most parts of the country's daily routines.The book provides both deep insights and some helpful touristic guidance.

'The Voices of Marrakesh' is my first experience of Elias Canetti's writing, and I am hooked. It's a short, sweet book, of a wide-eyed westerner poking around a strange, exotic city, drinking in all the colour and the noise, finding wonders under every stone. The fourteen short chapters allow him to sample and drop subjects, and Canetti is the perfect camera: gently intrusive, fearless in his curiosity, whether it is through gatecrashing the aftermath of a wedding and flirting with the bride,

Canetti's fourteen vignettes evoke a still colonial Marrakesh in gentle, spare prose. One could read these pieces purely for the enjoyment of a well crafted description of a brief visit inside the courtyard home of a Jewish family in the walled Mellah, or an unexpected encounter with beggars in a cemetery, but there is more subtly taking place. The careful reader will find the complexity of the human condition and the life force in all beings which seeks expression in the midst of despair.

Canetti walks the city and takes in the masses of people. He notes the voices of camel drivers, beggars, school children, tired foreigners, Jewish job seekers. Small scenes and big observations, one could only wish it was longer.

It's a synthetic diary of a very appealing place. Once finished, I've had the desire to read more about those stories.

So he just walked around and gawked at people?