That dazzling darkness

Book name: That dazzling darkness Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun Publisher: Arab Cultural Center Number of pages: 256 About the book: I have always searched for the Black Stone that purifies the soul of death. And when I say "always," I imagine a bottomless well, a tunnel I have dug with my fingers, with my teeth. I am driven by the stubborn hope that I will see, even if just for a moment, an eternal fleeting moment, a ray of light, a spark that would imprint in the depths of my eyes and keep them protected in my innermost being like a fracture. So it would be here, in my chest, nursing my endless nights, here, in this grave, in the moist earth, filled with the smell of a human emptied of his humanity by savage blows that peel his skin, and snatch from him sight, voice, and mind.