Kill The Cat: A collection of Moroccan proverbs

Patrimony is defined as «something» valued passed down from previous generations, a heritage. It consists of being an enrooted background having meaningful and valuable implications as everyone confirms.The Moroccan popular proverb, having that background, cannot be a prisoner of the past. However, its effectiveness must be open to the present and the future, to Moroccans and foreigners. The popular proverb is used by its people to express their messages, or rather, their wisdom in the aim of exposing the moral values around it. Thus, it has reduced the gap between the illiterate person and the cultivated, the rich and the poor one.At the same, the popular proverb refers to poetry when its words are meticulously chosen to express a meaningful aim, narration when imagination transports us from a linguistic item to an independent world, and finally drama when one gets to imagine its main characters. Without any doubt, a foreigner reading this book will find themselves in front of a strange kind of creativity, since the Moroccan proverb represents Morocco in a nutshell: The customs, behaviours, relationships and mentalities. Read more