An Unnameable Love
Abstract
In this article, we take as a starting point the novel Le sommeil d'Eve (Eve's Sleep) in order to examine Mohammed Dib's thoughts on femininity and love. His input on those issues is remarkable and pervades all his work. The novel Le sommeil d'Eve reveals how some romantic encounters entail such trauma that the perceived love pushes the protagonists over into another universe, one where irrational phenomena reign: oddness, strangeness, hallucinations, loss of the sense of reality. This transition from one universe to another intertwines mystical with traumatic insanity, couples loss with devastation, and links birth to death.
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