L’écriture au noir: les mots et les morts dans L’Amour, la fantasia d’Assia Djebar
Underground Writing: The Words and the Dead in L’Amour, la fantasia d’Assia Djebar

Summary/Abstract: The main topics of the novel “L’Amour, la fantasia”, which can be identified only as pairs of opposite themes – such as Eros and Thanatos, or love and death; man and woman; writing and silence; closed spaces, free spaces ; modernity and tradition, self and other, victim and conqueror – can be all found in the passage entitled Sistre. The aim of this paper is to provide a thorough textual analysis of the passage entitled Sistre which appears at the end of the second part of Assia Djebar’s novel “L’Amour, la fantasia”, and which functions as mise en abyme.

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