Corruption
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Casablanca and Tangier provide the back-drops for Corruption, an exotic and erotic tale of modern day morality – and the lack of it – in Morocco. After a lifetime of resistance to corruption, Monrad finally gives in to the demands of his materialistic wife and accepts ‘commission’ for his work. The novel explores what happens after he accepts the first envelope stuffed with cash. Winner of the Prix Goncourt and the 1994 Prix Maghreh, Taher Ben Jelloun is one of the most acclaimed novelists writing in French today.
Original title in French L’homme rompu Editions du Seuil (1994)
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Carol
Volk
Carol Volk is a French literary translator, former U.S. diplomat, writer and editor with a distinguished career spanning literature and international affairs.
She has translated more than 30 literary and scholarly works by French and francophone authors. Her work has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt, The New Press, and Harvard, Chicago, MIT, Columbia, and Nebraska university presses, and excerpted in The New Yorker, Grand Street, and elsewhere. She is a founding board member of the DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT) and recently joined the board of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley (WACMHV).
In 2025, she concluded a successful career as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service (“Bio”) after assignments in Rabat, Baghdad, Tel Aviv, Rome and DC. She and her husband have two grown sons, and live in the Hudson Valley.
Carol Volk is a French literary translator, former U.S. diplomat, writer and editor with a distinguished career spanning literature and international affairs.
She has translated more than 30 literary and scholarly works by French and francophone authors. Her work has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt, The New Press, and Harvard, Chicago, MIT, Columbia, and Nebraska university presses, and excerpted in The New Yorker, Grand Street, and elsewhere. She is a founding board member of the DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT) and recently joined the board of the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley (WACMHV).
In 2025, she concluded a successful career as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service (“Bio”) after assignments in Rabat, Baghdad, Tel Aviv, Rome and DC. She and her husband have two grown sons, and live in the Hudson Valley.