Inspired by the fascinating Moroccan city of Marrakech, by its Jemaa el Fna square, its religious and social tensions, and its countless and picturesque street scenes has produced countless literary and thinking works. Here is a new list of five of these works, whose stories, thoughts and adventures revolve around Marrakech, the ochre City: 1. Marrakech George Orwell (Motihari, India 1903 London, England 1950) famous English author George Orwell spent the winter of 1938-39 in Marrakech and left as a legacy of his marraquechi experience a short essay, Severus and lucid, which bears the name of the city. Their descriptions are vivid and full of reflections at the same time extremely critical and closely human. This essay is an eloquent portrait of the colonial reality of the Moroccan city in the 1930s, where Jewish, Arab and Subsaharan populations appear invisible to the indifferent, frivolous and blinded European look. 2. The repudiated Touria Oulehri this novel, of recent publication, narrates the moral Odyssey of Niran, a still young, modern woman rejected by her husband for not being able to give a child.
After more than fifteen years of marriage, family, and social pressure whose archaic rules consider a disgrace not fathering children, made her husband decides to abandon Niran to marry a young woman and fertile. Thus, Niran becomes conservative and relentless Fez Casablanca, more liberal and lenient, where it will take place a rediscovery of itself and a desire to start again that will take her an ultimate to Marrakech, where Niran expected to reunite with the love. Ultimately, this novel recounts gives us a closer and more realistic vision of the phenomenon of repudiation in Morocco, at the time that reveals the tensions of cultural complexity, between modernity and tradition, the current Moroccan woman suffering. 3. The Quartet of Marrakech Alberto Ciaurriz (Pamplona, Spain, 1947) this novel is singularly narrated from the quadrangular perspective of its four protagonists, the Mohammed and Adid Moroccans and Spaniards Juan Carlos and Paco.