Khaïr-Eddine, Mohammed

Khaïr-Eddine, Mohammed

▪ Moroccan writer
born 1941, Tafraout, Morocco
died Nov. 18, 1995, Rabat

      French-language poet and novelist who was a leader among postindependence Moroccan writers seeking a new and distinctly Moroccan poetic voice.

      Khaïr-Eddine completed his secondary studies in Casablanca and then worked for the government in Agadir, helping to restore order after an earthquake there. This experience led to his novel Agadir (1967), in which the earthquake comes to represent the upheavals of contemporary Moroccan society.

      Khaïr-Eddine's work was strongly influenced by the stylistic experiments of the Algerian Kateb Yacine as well as by the bitter and violent tone of his older compatriot Driss Chraïbi. His style is often referred to as a kind of “linguistic guerrilla warfare” and is notable for its use of invented words and of words borrowed from Arabic, its exploding of conventional syntax, its violent and confrontational imagery, and its blending of literary genres (often combining poetry, reportage, drama, and personal confession). This technique supports themes of cultural disorientation, loss of personal values, and political conflict and hypocrisy.

      Other well-known works by Khaïr-Eddine include the novels Corps négatif (1968; “Negative Body”), Moi, l'aigre (1970; “I, the Surly One”), and Le Déterreur (1973; “The Disentomber”) and the collections of poetry Soleil arachnide (1969; “Arachnid Sun”) and Ce Maroc! (1975; “This Morocco”).

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