The lost Atlantic

This novel is filled with information narrated through the narrator's movement between cities and deserts of Morocco and through the worshippers and ascetics he meets who provide him with the way of knowledge, which, as he says, has no limits "and only God is capable of casting His light on whom He wills of His servants." In exchange for his focus on this knowledge, and based on it, he talks about people and the stories their imagination adds to what happens in reality from facts. In this way, he reveals a collective magical awareness that makes people tell what they imagine and believe it, while at the same time practicing an indirect critique of popular beliefs that, for them, turn into facts—substitutes for knowledge and images of ignorance and intellectual backwardness. In short, this is a rich novel narrated in a smooth, classical style, its pleasure lies in the events it recounts, mainly, to the narrator "Abu Ya'za al-Haskouri." It is a traditional storytelling style based on an introduction and a plot distinguished by the successive twists and the ending/resolution, which usually leaves an impact on the reader's mind.