Paul bowles mohammed mrabet biography

Mohamed Mrabet

For the Tunisian sprint canoeist, see Mohamed Mrabet (canoeist).

Mohamed Mrabet

Born

Mohammed ben Chaib el Hajam


() March 8, (age&#;88)

Tangier, Morocco

Known&#;forAuthor, painting

Mohammed Mrabet (born March 8, ; néMohammed ben Chaib el Hajam) is a Moroccan author, artist and storyteller of the Ait Ouriaghel tribe in the Rif region.[1][2]

Mrabet, mostly known in the West through his association with Paul Bowles, William Burroughs and Tennessee Williams, is an artist of intricate felt tip and ink drawings in the style of Paul Masson or Joan Miró, which have been shown at various galleries in Europe[3] and America.[4] His art work is comparable with that of his contemporary Jillali Gharbaoui (–).

Mrabet is recognized as an important member of a small group of Moroccan master painters who emerged in the immediate post-colonial period[5] and his works have become highly sought after, mostly by European collectors.[6]

Biography

Mohammed Mrabet was born in Tangier, which was an International Zone from to His father enrolled him in a Koranic school at the age of four, then in at L'ecole public de Boukhachkhach.[7] From to , Mrabet worked as a caddie at the Royal Tangier Golf Club and thereafter as a fisherman, until , when he met an American couple, Russ and Anne-Marie Reeves, at the Café Central in Tangier's Petit Socco, and remained friends with them for several years.

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They leased the Hotel Muneria (Tangier Inn) in Tangier, and Mrabet worked there as a barman from to , when he accompanied them to New York, where he stayed with them for several months. His account of his relationship with this couple is semi-fictionalised in his autobiography Look and Move On.

Upon his return to Tangier in , he resumed his life as a fisherman and began to paint (his earliest drawing known to originate in ) and met and became friends with Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles, the latter, who, being impressed by his storytelling skills, became the translator of his many prodigious oral tales, which were orated from a distinctive "kiffed" and utterly non-anglicized perspective[8] and published in fourteen different books.

Throughout the s until Mrabet dictated his oral stories (which Bowles translated into English) and continued work with his paintings.

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His books have been translated into many languages, and in Philip Taaffe collaborated with Mrabet for the illustrations of his book Chocolate Creams and Dollars.[9] Mrabet continues to paint and holds periodic art exhibitions, mostly in Spain and Tangier. He lives in the Souani area of Tangier with his wife, children and grandchildren.

Bibliography

  • Love with a Few Hairs , NY: George Braziller, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • M'Hashish , San Francisco, City Lights, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • The Lemon , London: Peter Owen, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • The Boy Who Set the Fire , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Hadidan Aharam , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Look and Move On , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara Translated by Paul Bowles
  • The Big Mirror , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Short story: "The Lute" in Five Eyes , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • The Beach Cafe & The Voice , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • The Chest , Bolinas, Tombouctou, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Marriage With Papers , Bolinas, Tombouctou, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Chocolate Creams and Dollars , Inanout Press NY, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Collected Stories , Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre, Fez, Morocco, Translated by Paul Bowles
  • Le poisson conteur&#;: Et autres stories de Tanger, , Mohammed Mrabet and Eric Valentin, Le bec en l'air éditions

Autobiography

  • Look and Move On , Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara

Books on Mrabet

  • – With Much Fire In The Heart: The Letters of Mohammed Mrabet to Irving Stettner by Ron Papandrea
  • – Without Bowles: The Genius of Mohammed Mrabet by Andrew Clandermond and Terence MacCarthy

Literary criticism and reviews

  • – The Spring, In Transatlantic Review, Summer
  • – The Blood Drinker, In The Great Society Issue 2,
  • – The Café, In Vertumnus (Paris) Spring
  • – The Young Man Who Lived Alone, In World of the Short Story April
  • – The Hut, In Mediterranean Review Spring
  • – Si Mokhtar, In Armadillo Fall
  • – Abdesalam and Amar, In Omphalos March
  • – Doctor Safi, In Rolling Stone April
  • – The Dutiful Son, In Bastard Angel, Spring
  • – Bahloul, In Antaeus Summer
  • – El Fellah, In Outlaw Visions
  • – Earth, a play by Mohammed Mrabet, In Conjunctions Issue No 1: (Winter –82)
  • – Mohammed Mrabet's Fiction of Alienation In World Literature Today, Vol.

    64, by Ibrahim Dawood

  • – Paul Bowles/Mohammed Mrabet: Translation, Transformation, and Transcultural Discourse by Richard F. Patteson
  • – On Translating Paul (and Jane and Mrabet) by Claude Nathalie Thomas In Journal of Modern Literature – Volume 23, Number 1, Fall , pp.&#;35–43
  • – In Defense of Tradition: Mohammed Mrabet's Postcolonial Leanings and the Confrontation of “Kif Wisdom with Modernity by Raj Chandarlapaty

Art exhibitions including catalogs

  • – New York at the Antaeus office, USA
  • – City Lights Bookshop, San Francisco, USA
  • – La Gallerie Paul Mauradian, Lyon France
  • – Cavin-Morris in New York.

    (Pen and Ink drawings exhibited)

  • – La Gallerie Art en Marge, Bruxelles, Belgium
  • – Hotel Continental, Tangier, Morocco
  • /04 – Akhawain Universite de Ifrane, Morocco
  • /08 – Galerie Aplanos, Cultural Museum of Assilah, Morocco
  • /09 – Museum of Immigration, Douai, France
  • – University of Charleston, S.C; USA
  • – Galeria Tarifa, Tarifa, Spain
  • – Institut Cervantes, Tangier, Morocco
  • – Darna, Women's Community Centre, Tangier, Morocco
  • – Dawliz Complex, Tangier, Morocco
  • – August The Lawrence-Arnott Art Gallery, Tangier, Morocco
  • – October/November El Minzah Hotel, Tangier, Morocco

Further reading

References

  1. ^de Hollanda, Roberto.

    "Mohamed Mrabet: Biography". Paul Bowles.

    Mohammed mrabet biography Mrabet fled. Winter " The Hyena ". On this crisp December afternoon, in the house he shares with his extended family, a couple kilometers from the gates of the old city, Mrabet tells—compulsively, mesmerizingly—one story after another, each based on his life. He had been ill for some time with respiratory problems.

    Retrieved June 14,

  2. ^Norval, Edd (September 7, ). "Mohamed Mrabet - the last storyteller". Compulsive Contents. Retrieved June 14,
  3. ^[Exhibition Catalog: La Gallerie Art en Marge, Bruxelles, Belgium]
  4. ^[Exhibition Catalog: City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco]
  5. ^[Without Bowles: The Genius of Mohammed Mrabet, by Andrew Clandermond and Terence MacCarthy]
  6. ^[Ibid.]
  7. ^[Ibid]
  8. ^[The Storyteller & The Fisherman, psalmodia sub rosa SUB CD]
  9. ^[Ibid]

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