Moha le fou, Moha le sage

Synopsis of Moha le fou, Moha le sage

«Moha le fou, Moha le sage» is the novel by Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, published by Seuil in paperback (185 pages, in French).

Moha, an unclassifiable vagabond with a voice half mad and half wise, shakes the social and political order of the Maghreb. His encounters with a technocrat, a psychiatrist, the Jew Moché, or an Indian emigrant portray the contradictions of a society, and his voice as an outcast becomes poetic resistance that neither prison nor death can silence.

The novel belongs to the Points Roman collection (number 8) and received the prize of the French Librarians and that of Radio Monte-Carlo in 1979.

For readers of Maghrebi literature and contemporary French fiction seeking a novel with poetic style and a critical look at social exclusion.