Poetics of spatial writing in This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

Abstract

This blinding absence of light is a story of a prisoner in Tazmamart's prison. The narrator is locked
up with his colleagues in isolated cells under the ground; his reflection frees the walls of the prison
and leaves the building due to the magic of the word as well as the poetic expression. The story
relies on the elements mobilizing the space, it becomes a main actor through which the story echoes
and promotes the deconstruction-construction of the story. This research aims to demonstrate the
scriptural relationships that space maintains, as a mode of writing in Ben Jelloun's story. The space
becomes the setting where many digressions intermingle. How can one conceive of a poetics of the
narrative chained in a frozen setting that is metamorphosed and burst into decorative elements
through words and rhetorical