Borrowings from various cultural spheres in Le Livre du sang by A Khatibi Or how to live a problematic identity

Abstract

Le Livre du Sang is of a rather difficult access for which is not initiated with the reading of the modern texts. In fact, the writing
of Khatibi borrows, by mixing with it the kinds, its processes at the same time in the Occident, (more precisely with the French
literature), and in the arabo-Islamic and Maghrebian world.The plural cultural references (myth of theAndrogyne, mysticism
Sufi), go, in a particular treatment of the writing, to be used as matrix with the production of a problematic Maghrebian identity. This article “revisits” thework of Khatibi. Through the thematic study, more precisely mythocritic, of some examples of loans to the two cultural spheres, we will try to explain how Khatibi, while plunging us in an environment quasi-mystic, convenes images of universal symbolism to transcend in a poetic and harmonious way the identity problem, in other words how this author militates so that Maghrebian, shared it between the East andthe Occident, lives his multiple identity (it is still a current problem!), not like a tearing but like awealth, a completeness.