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Tangier has been the subject of many artistic works, including novels, films and music. ==Literature== * ''Tanger'' A Norwegian book by the author Thure Erik Lund. Jostein Bøhn, one of the main characters has it as a final destination point in his journey. * ''Le dernier ami'' by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The two protagonists were born in Tangier and the city is revisited many times in the book. * ''Jour de silence à Tanger'' by Tahar Ben Jelloun. * "Streetwise" by Mohamed Choukri * ''Naked Lunch'' by William S. Burroughs – relates some of the author's experiences in Tangier. (See also Naked Lunch (film)) * The poem "America" by Allen Ginsberg * ''Desolation Angels'' by Jack Kerouac relates him living with William Burroughs and other Beat writers in Tangier. * ''Interzone'' by Burroughs – It talks about a fictionalized version of Tangier called ''Interzone'' (aka International Zone) * ''Let It Come Down'' is Paul Bowles's second novel, first published in 1952 * ''Two Tickets for Tangier'' by Francis Van Wyck Mason, an American novelist and historian * ''Modesty Blaise''; a fictional character in a comic strip of the same name and a series of books created by Peter O'Donnell – In 1945 a nameless girl escaped from a displaced person (DP) camp in Karylos, Greece. She took control of a criminal gang in Tangier and expanded it to international status as "The Network". After dissolving The Network and moving to England she maintained a house on a hillside above Tangier and many scenes in the books and comic strips are located here. * ''Carpenter's World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli'' – a Frank G. Carpenter travel guide (1927) * ''The Thief's Journal'' by Jean Genet – Includes the protagonist's experiments in negative morality in Tangier (1949) * ''The Alchemist'' by Paulo Coelho * '' The Crossroads of the Medterranean'' by Henrik de Leeuw- chronicles the author's journey through Morocco and Tunisia in the early 1950s and includes many pages describing Tangier, notably the Petit Socco as a food market with mountain dwellers (the ''jebli'') selling their produce and 'the street of male harlots', where they ply 'their shameful trade'. * ''The Gold Bug Variations'' by Richard Powers * ''The Innocents Abroad'' by Mark Twain includes a mixed bag of comments on his visit to Tangier, ending with: "I would seriously recommend to the Government of the United States that when a man commits a crime so heinous that the law provides no adequate punishment for it, they make him Consul-General to Tangier." * ''Seed'' by Mustafa Mutabaruka – An African-American dancer struggling with the death of his father meets an enigmatic young woman and her companion in Tangier. * ''Au grand socco'' by Joseph Kessel – A Moroccan Tangerine boy shares his adventures in the great socco. * ''A Dead Man in Tangier'' by Michael Pearce - Sandor Seymour, an officer of Scotland Yard's Special Branch, is sent to investigate a murdered diplomat in Tangier, during the era immediately preceding World War I. * ''Tangier'' by William Bayer - a novel of expatriate life set in Tangier in the 1970s, featuring a Moroccan detective who watches the foreign colony and a host of writers, painters and socialites believed to have been based on real Tangier personalities. * "The Drifters by James A Michener - a novel of which follows six young characters from diverse backgrounds and various countries as their paths meet and they travel together through parts of Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Mozambique. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tangier in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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