Abdellah Taïa's new novel puts loneliness at the center of the rentrée
In "Debout dans tes rêves," the Moroccan-French writer follows two characters from opposite worlds, drawn together and apart by isolation.
Abdellah Taïa returns this rentrée littéraire with "Debout dans tes rêves," a novel reviewed by En attendant Nadeau, which describes a spare, unsentimental style used to examine solitude.
According to the review, the book centers on two main characters set against each other by circumstance: a student who has come from Morocco to France, and a child from a wealthy neighborhood. Through their contrasting positions, the novel questions what still binds people to one another socially.
En attendant Nadeau frames the novel's language as fluid and free of pathos, a register the outlet reads as central to how Taïa handles his subject without tipping into melodrama.
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