Fantasme et représentation : Une lecture du Peintre dévorant la femme de Kamel Daoud

Cristina ROBALO-CORDEIRO

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Fantasme et représentation : Une lecture du Peintre dévorant la femme de Kamel Daoud

Authors:

Cristina ROBALO-CORDEIRO

Publisher:

Abdelouahad MABROUR

Journal:

Relais Vol.11 Issue 11, pp.17-25

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2025

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

2001848127

pISSN:

3085-4679

Abstract:

 Invited to spend a night at Picasso Museum in Paris, the Algerian author Kamel Daoud develops a comparative reflection on the meaning of the body and the statute of nudity in the Moslem cultures and in the West. Giving voice, under the name of Abdellah, to an adept of Islamism and to his impious contradictor, the Writer, all along the paintings, builds a philosophical framework in which the three main concepts (Eroticism, Cannibalism, “Occidentalism”) are meant to subvert the metaphysical supremacy of the Soul. The allusion to the couple formed by Defoe’s characters, Robinson and Friday, and the dialectic reversal brought forth by Modernity (the values of the one becoming the values of the other, nudity shifting from Friday to Robison) allows the Author to profess a strange atheism where the sacred relinquishes the Soul to inhabit the Body at last rehabilitated.

Article Details

Fantasme et représentation : Une lecture du Peintre dévorant la femme de Kamel Daoud

Authors: Cristina ROBALO-CORDEIRO

Publisher: Abdelouahad MABROUR

Journal: Relais Vol.11 Issue 11, pp.17-25

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 7/2025

Document Language: French

Document ID (Org No.): 2001848127

pISSN: 3085-4679

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Authors:

Cristina ROBALO-CORDEIRO

Publisher:

Abdelouahad MABROUR

Journal:

Relais Vol.11 Issue 11, pp.17-25

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

7/2025

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

2001848127

pISSN:

3085-4679