The books of Mois Benarroch: January 2018

Sunday, January 21, 2018

Review of -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

Review by Ikingi -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

The Expelled vividly captures the urge to belong to a society that constantly criticizes you. How do you fit in a community that supposedly welcomes you with open arms but later on digs into your origin? Mois uses the context of stories within a story creatively without breaking the flow. Stuck between defending his identity as a Jew and defending his place of birth, language and culture, he creatively uses own persona to bring out the challenges affecting immigrant communities.

Mois explore various themes through self-dialogue as well as conversations in juxtaposition. Do we belong just because we share the same ethnicity? Do we belong just because we believe that the land we live in was granted to us by our creator? How do we treat people who supposedly belong to us but where born and brought up in diverse continents and culture? How do we blend in, accommodate and flourish in our diversity rather than disintegrate.

The book is an interesting read for individuals in structured communities that are trying to evolve into a global village. Combined with Mois’ prose, stories within a story, The Expelled is an intuitive read. I would have also loved to read the book in its original language, Hebrew. However, that’s a challenge to me an East African used to English as the main foreign language from my childhood. The book will be an interesting read to people in states facing constant change especially, negative ethnicity as well as string individual opinions.

The bus ride from ocean to sea across Europe clearly brings out the divisions we create in our own minds. The Front people despise the back people for the mere fact that they are seated at the back. Do we choose where to seat on a bus? Should we be hated for sitting at the back of the bus? Low self-esteem by the back people is vividly brought out by Grammatical and her lover.

Is Cash’s death literal? From the bus story, Cash is both literal and also used metaphorically to show what we the world adore. The passengers decide to pray to cash, whom they have now christened a saint for their own safety and to keep off self-guilt. Even though the team is hungry, we can’t rule out the passengers had cash but there were no shops to buy food.

This is an interesting book for all literature lovers. I would recommend the book to anyone interested in building their story telling skills even though it might be boring to casual readers. I give the book a 3 out of 4 stars.

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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Review - The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

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by Narcissa13 » 17 Jan 2018, 22:54

[Following is a volunteer review of "The Expelled" by Mois Benarroch.]

For those of you who enjoyed the works of Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Nikolai Gogol, The Expelled by Mois Benarroch would be a good choice for you. In his work of modern fiction Mr. Benarroch takes the reader through a wide range of psychological and mystic, if not somewhat supernatural, phenomena in a fast pace trip through the eyes of a writer at a creative crisis who encounters some rather unusual circumstances.

The story is set in Tel Aviv, and is told from a first person perspective. The narrator is a struggling author whose relationship with his wife is becoming increasingly strained and difficult. During the course of a bus ride he sees a woman who is a double of his wife, only ten years younger. Wondering if she is really the same woman (it seems impossible) he approaches her and discovers that she is the same person, yet she doesn’t know him. The narrator and his wife’s double start an affair, as it were, the dynamic between them mimicking that of that with his wife when they first met.

During one of their meetings he reads her a story he has written about a group of people on a bus ride that encounter a number of strange, inexplicable, and frequently stark and violent circumstances. He finishes reading the story, in and of itself a considerable section of the plot, and continues his relationship with his wife’s younger double until the situation resolves itself in a manner both predictable and unpredictable.

Within the basic framework of the story, using a writing style and tone similar to that of a personalized journal entry or a person talking or thinking to oneself, the author discusses a wide variety of controversial topics such as national and religious identity, societal perception of various religious groups, and sexual interest and frustration to name a few. Frequently he introduces these topics in the manner of a thought occurring almost at random to the narrator and subsequently relayed to the audience.

From my personal perspective I thought Mr. Benarroch’s use of the story-within-a-story technique to introduce a vast array of complicated topics was impressive. The story about ‘The Bus’, at least from my perspective was an ingenious way of portraying a range of complex phenomena such as the uncertainty of life in a region plagued by terrorism and the warped and somewhat negative way that human psychology can change and evolve in dangerous, uncertain situations. The author, again in first person perspective, presents a vast array of concepts in a relatively very small amount of text.

I would rate this story as a 3 out of 4 stars. I think it sits between a 2 and a 4 because while The Expelled is a very complex story rather cunningly written to use a small novel-sized book to touch base on a vast number of very difficult to address topics, it can at times be difficult to track the exact interactions between characters and concepts at a few points. The feature just mentioned is very probably a literary technique intended to create a feeling of uncertainty and of being off-balance in the reader, which is actually what I perceive the author’s aim was by writing it this way. However for readers less accustomed to unusual phenomena such as walls appearing and disappearing and transitioning quickly from event to event without much time or space involved, the book might seem disconcerting and might leave some readers behind.

If you enjoy some mysticism and a sense of suspended reality then The Expelled by Mois Benarroch will be a good trip into the less certain aspects of the world.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Review by Genna H -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

Post Number:#1 by Genna H » 07 Mar 2017, 21:46

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Mois Benarroch’s The Expelled is a story within a story, each with its own subtleties. The author has written in such a manner that you are unsure whether the events in the main story are fact or fiction, mixing story-telling with narrative, creating an interesting, though initially confusing, blend.

The main story centers on a man whose name is not given – we are left to assume that the character is Mois Benarroch himself. He is a Moroccan Jew, which is a central point to the story as it identifies him in the interlaced theme of racism, segregation, and the affects of each on the individual. As a Moroccan Jew, he is an outcast – his Jewish settlement in Morocco no more and considered too dirty to be accepted in Israel.

As the book continues, Mois begins an affair with a younger version of his wife, Gabrielle, and the affair leads to the story within the story. It’s a story about a bus where the majority (front people) decide that they are better and choose to take command of the bus, creating rules that determine when those less worthy (back people) can use the toilet, how much say they have in the affairs of the bus, even their life and death.

The inner story shows the journey of how segregation begins and its progress – from creating a name of separation to creating the space of separation, and eventually the acceptance of separation as normal. Meanwhile, the outer story of Mois shows what it is in real life – the struggle to be published, the surprise expressed by others when you act contrary to how they think “someone like you” should behave; the feeling of being an eternal outsider.

There was a lot that I liked about this book and a few nuances of which I was not so keen. That being said, I rate this book as 3 out of 4 stars. The psychological and philosophical points which Mois presented in his work kept me intrigued. He managed to present the very contemporary issues of racism and segregation boldly while still being fair-minded and honest. Having experienced racism in Israel, he expresses a duality that separates his life – one where he chooses not to accept the view that he is lesser because of the nation of his birth and one where he would attempt to hide who he was in order to avoid being the outcast – to be one of the majority.

It certainly made me reassess my thoughts on racism from the victim’s point of view. It also brought to light the idea of how racism and segregation begins and how, once it becomes rooted and established, the majority don’t recognize that it is happening or don’t realize it is wrong.

I chose not to give four stars because it did seem to ramble at times. This may have been intentional by the author, but the story was hard to follow at times with its abrupt switches from one story to the other. It also seemed to have some rambling inserted for humor’s sake. At the beginning and at times throughout I found it to be irritating, as though the author were trying to force me to laugh; however, as the book continued, there were times when the subtle humor worked well and felt very natural.

All-in-all, this was a good book that would appeal to thinkers. While it is an enjoyable book, there is more to it than simply reading for entertainment. This is reading for enrichment – reading of another person’s experiences and opinions, of how they were formed and why they are important to all of us today.

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BOOK Review by veniq mars -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

Review by veniq mars -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

Post Number:#1 by veniq mars » 10 May 2017, 12:14

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Title: The expelled
Author: Mois Benarroch
Translator: Pamela Deccache
Publisher: Babelcube Incorporated
Genre: Science fiction / fantasy

The narrator comes across Gabrielle, a lady identical to his wife though younger. He ends up cheating on his wife with her. The fact that that lady is actually hi real wife is amazing. He reads her one of his latest work about an hijacked bus and there is drama in the bus regarding the front and back people. The novel is about a story where in the middle someone tells another story. You come across the expelled, the Sephardim who arrived in Morocco after the inquisition. The narrator however feels feels expelled as well. He goes further to explain how. The novel turns into a chilling and far reaching reminder that a story in a story can create a rewarding adventure. Mois presents himself as one of the gifted and acclaimed writer through this work.

The writer turns off a tangent in between the story and suddenly you are extra informed about the discrimination surrounding him against minorities and poverty. He further shares the struggle he goes through as a writer and that he is actually a man of straw. He does not put too much focus on the theme and this avoids boredom. The novel is not so immersed in the main theme.

I love the humour portrayed. Who does not love laughing when reading books. The writer makes fun of serious and emotional situations. Describing security check as machines looking for bombs. How he cools down a boner when he has one, he thinks about the tractors of kibbutz . So much more humour as you keep going. I will definitely remember to grab Mois' work the next time I am down. Books are meant to uplift spirits, they are not supposed to be boring. This is what this unique work is all about.

Every music lover should read this book, the narrator believes he has a music station in his head where he keeps changing songs according to the mood and condition he finds himself in. It also a recommendation for comedy lovers too. Both of them must love reading books first. Such books are sometimes rare to come across. Even so, its really hard to actually settle on a specific group to recommend. If you are a lover of fantasy then it is basically ideal. Most skeptical readers will conclude feeling less gloomy.

The fact that it is a translation makes you scared of the grammar mistakes that you expect. Its positive that the mistakes although present , are few. Somehow you understand the reason for their existence. Apart from the grammar mistakes, it is dense in substance. I love reading this book but even so, it could be much fun if there were no such mistakes.

I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. It is not that bad off after all. It is dramatic. It is full of humour. It is unique. And a lot of readers will find it interesting. No doubt. If you only read one book a year, this is absolutely it.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Review -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

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The Expelled written by Mois Benarroch and translated by Pamela Daccache is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma or as the author writes “A story that’s inside another and another and another and apparently they all have nothing to do with each other, or they don’t, even if one tries to find a link.” Perhaps on the surface these stories have nothing to do with one another, but then again, perhaps they do.

The book begins with the narrator as he travels home from Tel Aviv, mindlessly describing his life, his work, and his wife whom he believes wants a divorce, when he sees a young woman who looks exactly as his wife did, twenty-five years ago. Slightly shocked that such an impossible thing could happen he follows her and strikes up a conversation with the woman. The narrator tries to rationalize how the woman in front of him could possibly be his wife, but twenty-five years younger, and yet she is.

From there the story diverts and becomes another story, which in turn becomes yet another, forcing the reader to decide what is reality and what is impossible. “…it’s a story about love, indifference, fiction, reality or reality that merges with fiction.” Following along the author’s twists and turns through the narrative is like riding a roller-coaster in complete darkness; you have no idea what will happen yet you have some security that you will come out on the other side safely. Even if you question that security, the ride is still enjoyable because it is frightening and unknown; the danger is what makes it fun. So too is the danger in The Expelled enjoyable. How will the author make sense of his predicament? How will he understand what is happening to him and put it in a context the reader will relate to.

It all comes back to who and what belongs in certain spaces and certain times. Can one person exist in the same space at different times? Can they have multiple identities yet still be the same person? Can the real and the unreal exist in the same plane? And who are you when you are from one place and yet not of that place? Benarroch plays with these seemingly answerless questions and attempts to answer them through his narrative in The Expelled.

I give The Expelled 3 out of 4 stars. The book is well written with an unusual narrative voice that pulls you into each story and won’t let go until it is through with you. An unconventional read at worst and philosophical at best, this book asks so many questions that the reader must try to understand and answer, sometimes it’s tough to keep up. I enjoyed the mix of realism and fantasy; it is the only way for the author to have gotten his point across to his readers. At times the multiple story plots can become confusing as the reader tries to untangle exactly where they are in the story while simultaneously dig out further meaning from the narrative, yet the overall impact of the book leaves one questioning further the idea of a bifurcated life and the consequences of it.

The Expelled by Mois Benarroch is at times confusing and so fantastic the reader loses sight of what the author’s underlying idea is, yet the idea is so powerful it shines through even the most tangled web of narrative.

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Review by Gotsoccer12 -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

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Mois Benarroch’s The Expelled does not immediately lend itself to summary. This is in large part due to its telling of multiple stories, inside of a story, inside of the story. If that sounds complicated or confusing, that’s because it is, but do not write The Expelled off yet. They are, after all, pretty interesting stories.

The book opens with our narrator, who remains unnamed throughout the book, on the way home from Tel Aviv via train. He is headed home to Jerusalem and his estranged wife, who he may or may not want to divorce him. We learn that their marital problems stem at least in part from his career as a struggling writer. She grudgingly supports him financially as he pursues his writing, oscillating between wanting to be published more and wanting to remain obscure. If you are wondering why any author might prefer obscurity to fame, the answer is in the book.

Our protagonist arrives at the station, where he is astonished to catch a glimpse of a woman who is the mirror image of his wife 20 years earlier. He strikes up a conversation with the woman who turns out to actually be his wife, Gabrielle, 20 years earlier. He quickly begins an affair with the younger version of his wife because wouldn’t you? If you are dying to know how that one ends, read the book.

One afternoon, our nameless narrator spends his time with young Gabrielle reading, at her request, one of his stories. It is a recent work that is as of yet unpublished and unnamed, maybe not even done; or at least that is what he tells Gabrielle as he begins to read. The story centers around the interrogation of multiple people whose only relation is that they were passengers on a bus travelling across Northern Africa from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. During the account, we learn that the passengers on this bus have already begun self-segregating as “front people” and “back people” when someone is shot and killed. No one knows who has committed this crime and the confusion and fear further cement the lines of segregation. People sitting in the front are identified as good and trustworthy and those sitting in the back as bad and dangerous. Stranger and stranger things begin happening on the bus but everyone takes these things in stride as if there was nothing very odd about them at all. Eventually the bus is involved in a crash and our poor passengers regain consciousness in the interrogation facility. Think magical realism meets the socio-political atmosphere of Israel.

All together, I would give The Expelled 3 out of 4 stars. I ranked it highly because Mois Benarroch has an easy voice that makes it interesting and enjoyable to read. Both the humorous and the painful events and realizations of the book are so palpable that much like Benarroch’s characters, the reader feels a bit lost in the whirlwind of stories stirring through the book. Whether you think this is a good thing or not is up to you. I likened it to the experience of reading Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, which for me was somewhat infuriating until I realized that the absurdity of the writing mimicked the absurdity of the characters’ experiences specifically and of war generally. In other words, The Expelled is a lot to swallow and a little bit confusing, but so is the subject matter that it is addressing.

I felt I could not give The Expelled a 4th star for two reasons. The first is that I felt like some prior knowledge was necessary to follow Benarroch’s line of thought. Totally by chance, I have studied the region in which it is set (the Middle East/North Africa) and felt fairly comfortable with the historical and political allusions that are so central to the story. I knew what to look up if I wanted to know more and I could immediately recognize the story of the bus for the allegory it was. I wonder if people without any prior knowledge would be able to navigate the book and if they would find the story compelling enough to keep reading if they didn't. The second reason I did not give it a 4, is that I felt very unfulfilled by the book’s ending. I was not expecting a happy ending or even for all mysteries to be solved, since that is not how such a story would really end, but the ending felt abrupt and forced. I felt cut short and like there had been no real change. Perhaps this was intentional on the part of the author, but I, for one, want characters that grow and change.

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"The Expelled" is a book written by Mois Benarroch, a prolific writer of Moroccan origin. It explores various themes, for instance, love and sexuality, gender issues, class inequality, adultery, the position of the artist an the role of art, including the historical background and the position of Moroccan Jews, which is based on the author's personal perspective, as he himself is of the same origin.

The book belongs to SCI-FI and fantasy genre, but it is at the same time a real-life story, showing us what happens when an ordinary man becomes "the expelled", estranged from his family, society and work and life in general. By using characters' string of consciousness, and the mixture of fantasy elements and real-life events, which are perfectly embedded in the story, the author contributed to producing a very strong effect on the reader.

Although the plot is difficult to retell, here is the brief summary . The main character is the narrator of the story, but we do not know his name. I suppose that he is "The Expelled". However, we are presented with some information from his life- he is a writer, trying to pursue a successful career, and he is married, although not happily. The key moment in the book is when he meets a young Gabrielle at the bus station, and immediately falls for her. After a series of events and adultery scenes, we realize that Gabrielle junior, as he calls her, and his wife are actually one and the same person. During his meetings with Gabrielle, he reads her the story he has written, called "The Bus". It is a story about discrimination and oppression, as there are two groups of people, the front and the back people. As opposed to the front people, who are considered as wise and noble, the back people are called "the bad people", so there is a sort of hierarchy involved.

What I liked the most about the book is that there are so many examples from literature and music. There are verses and quotes written by famous authors, such as Charles Bukowski and Baudelaire, as well as stanzas from Van Morison's or Lenard Cohen's songs. The language is simple and adapted to various age groups, so if you are a fan of plain, realistic and honest writing, than this is the right book for you. On the other hand, what I did not like about the book is its structure, which is extremely difficult to follow and memorize.

The plot of the novel is difficult to retell due to highly complicated structure- the story within a story within a story within a story, which means that there are three different stories in the same novel. It is almost impossible to memorize all the characters and events, and since this is one of the most complex novels I have ever read, [b]I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. Owing to its complexity and difficulty to follow the story, I cannot give this book all 4 stars.

To sum it all up, "The Expelled" is a kind of novel which leaves impression and make us ask ourselves important questions: Who am I? Where do I belong? What did I become? The book leads us on a mysterious journey, and just when you think that the story comes to an end, the author sur

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Review by Sgatev23 -- The Expelled by Mois Benarroch

Mois Benarroch, an award-winning poet and novelist (Amichai Prize, Prime Minister Prize), is an author of more than twenty books. His short novel, The Expelled, is part of a compendium of seven novels under the name Amor y Exilios (Love and Exile).

This remarkable novella relates the story of a writer who falls in love with a young woman, Gabrielle, whose name and appearance are exactly like his wife’s, only she is twenty-five years younger. A question arises whether they are the same person or not. The mysterious event shapes a narrative which reveals vivid features immanent to magic realism, or, more accurately, to metafiction, genres that reject any of the conventional rules imposed by traditional modernism. It is not long before the reader is forced to consider the story not only as a creative product but as a creative process. As the unnamed writer admits:

“It could very well be the pure imagination of a writer, an idea to write a novel or a story, although I am not very good at writing short stories, I need more words. It must have been just that, one should not play with coincidences or imagination.”

The overt romance, then, quickly fades away when both characters enter the fictive world of the writer-protagonist’s short novel. There, the kidnapping of a bus slowly shapes itself into an allegory of the problematic relationship between Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews. The bus is separated between the ‘back’ people and the ‘front’ people, and those adjectives, at first only terms used for better accuracy, soon become vividly emblematic of social classes and ethnic groups. In the aftermath of this event, while the central plot is seeking to find out who gunned down Cash, one of the ‘back’ people in the bus, the passengers recount their individual stories about that time when they were all together “between two seas, two worlds.” But whom to?

The self-reflexivity of the novel becomes ever more apparent when the main protagonist’s soliloquy is interrupted by his mysterious interrogators.

“Well, I see that in here I'm going to be talking alone and nobody is going to respond to anything. I don't even know if you're listening, maybe you've fallen asleep, or there's just one of you, or you're recording this and then you'll listen to only parts of what I say.”

This narrative bifurcation befuddles the reader as he sinks deeper and deeper into these metafictional layers and, at the same time, is invited by the very character to take his active role in interpreting the events (“… if I write our encounter one day it'll be a story in which someone tells a story about someone who's telling a story.”).

The Expelled is one of those literary gems with quantum-like properties which deem any genre categorization impossible. Apart from some minor editorial imperfections, a solid 3 out of 4 is what any perceptive reader would rate this brilliant piece of writing. Benarroch’s flouted play with fiction and reality gains him a well-deserved place right next to Wells, Fowles, and Borges.

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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Review by Sunnet -- Keys to Tetouan by Mois Benarroch

3 out of 4 stars

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Keys to Tetuoan is an informative account, garnished with elements of historical exposition about the Jews, spanning from the time of their expulsion from Spain in 1492.

Fernando Benzimra who had kept back from telling his parents of the birth of his Jewish son because he was not sure of their reaction, now sets out to inquire about his Jewish origin and relatives in Tetuoan and Jerusalem after he learned posthumously in a letter written by his father declaring that he was Jewish. The shock of this revelation coupled with the fact that his own 12years old son, John has a Jewish mother coincidentally, made him develop the desire to be reunited with his Jewish family, and also excited in him a belief that fate is always tending him back to his long suppressed Jewish personality. Although Fernando's mother was a christian, he believes, after learning about the history of his Jewish ancestors, that his late Spanish mother must have been a descendant of the Jews who converted to Christianity in other to retain their place back in Spain after the expulsion. There were other Benzimras who also longed to be reunited with their origin after year of living in exile around the world: in Brazil, US, France, Britain etc. Although they might be successful and well to do in their respective endeavors yet, there is always a part of them that never finds satisfaction in exile till they were reunited with the land of their birth, the land of their ancestors, their culture, religion and their people.

The rendering of the book is generally as mature and noble as the cultural background of the told story. Even though it is somewhat Jewish in context, there is a clear-cut objectivity exuded by the narrators when references were made of historical bloodbath events like the holocaust, the Arab killings.

What particularly fascinates me is the originality of the story and the skill with which all the story fragments - experiences of individual characters - were united towards the last third of the story to form a whole piece summarizing 500-year experience of the exiled Jews. But not without a few harmless typographical errors.

I found it a little difficult though, to keep up with the story at first, partly because one can not easily tell which character is speaking in a conversation. One would have to go over from the start of the story to re-establish any connection lost. As such, i would say, it is a book for the patient, optimist readers. I rate the book 3 out of 4 stars. I would recommend it to all history enthusiasts and all Jews living anywhere all around the world.

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