Diaries of the Castle of Exile, Prison Letters 1972-1980

When you read Al-Laabi''s letters, the letters he wrote from his prison, you know that, from the beginning, he understood the deep meaning of a place and time called prison: it is the transformation of the person who enters it. Changing it towards erasing it. Between the walls of the cell, and inside an isolated world preparing for the death of life in it, the mind of the new visitor was working, seizing the secret of the hidden game of death, the game of death that the prison contains, seeing where death hides. He realizes that life is possible, a life of growth, giving, and change. I read all of this and said: Is it possible that prison life could be this rich? Abdul Latif Laabi''s prison diary is an example of the virtue of being loved. Before that, you must be able to spread the values ??of love, and share it even with those outside prison. They are letters of love that Al-Laabi shares with his companion, Jocelyn, his children, and his companions. Al-Laabi''s words come out from between the walls and into a wider space of freedom. In the diary, a test of culture in the ordeal of political imprisonment. The Moroccan poet''s endeavor is not limited to the theoretical confirmation of human values, but rather sets his life as an example of the struggle to live in a free and more just world.