Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

Tahar Ben Jelloun ABLATION (novel excerpt)

I have the feeling of having been put to the side, into a reserve, in a cave. I am in a second-hand store: used furniture, piled-up dinner sets, lifeless mirrors, lamp shades without lights, plastic knick- knacks, some bad paintings, designs, reproductions destroyed by the humidity, moth-eaten carpets, an overly expensive Saint-Louis jug, a 60’s jukebox… and then me. Left there on a shelf, I shrivel up and make myself small.

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