Escape to Samarkand

In this autobiographical narrative, Abdellatif Laâbi examines the humanity within him. His ambition: to hide nothing, to avoid nothing, starting with himself. "Escape to Samarkand" is an unfettered, hectic traversal of the era he was destined to live, especially its final chapter: the tragedy of the epidemic that the world faced. The question of extinction is skillfully approached through the famous story of the Persian mystic Farid al-Din Attar.