Spatiality and Intimacy in La Maison De Cicine of Mohamed Nedali

Abstract

Our study focuses on the Intimate and the Private which have emerged in literary criticism and the humanities. Mohamed Nedali, an important French-speaking author in literature in that he criticizes Moroccan society in his novels. The choice of La Maison de Cicine is explained by the fact that it represents a micro-society. The study is addressed to specialists of literary space in that it places produced space at the antipodes of Bachelardian theory of space. Starting from the fact that space plays an important role in the deployment of intimacy, we have shown to what extent the dwelling is a space capable of sheltering an intimacy and how the house designed by Nedali passes from a place of peace, freedom and security to a shelter of hatred and prohibition. A theoretical overview focused on the question of how place was important to us, in light of Bachelard and Heidegger.