Short Fiction · Character
Marroca
A Spanish-born wife in colonial Algeria whose ferocious appetites turn a casual affair into a demand for remembrance.
supporting
First appearance: short fiction
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The narrator's passionate lover, a Spanish-descended woman married to Pontabèze, who engages in a dangerous affair and shows a willingness to murder her husband.
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Marroca is the wife of a busy French civil servant in an Algerian town, and she spends her husband's working hours in the narrator's house, sleeping, laughing, and loving with animal directness. Her body and her will…
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- Varied Tales of Human Nature
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