The aphorism, a transgressive writing, or the image of women in ‘Seuls comptent pour moi les êtres qui font preuve d’intempérance avec le ciel’ by Abdelmajid Benjelloun

Abstract

A. Benjelloun is a French-speaking Moroccan writer, poet-aphorist and historian, specialist in the history of northern Morocco. He is a founding member of the House of Poetry of Morocco. We are going to study, in the present, the theme of the woman, to hear the representation of the woman, via the aphorisms of this Moroccan poet, in order to detect the semantic and philosophical scope of his thought and the transgressive content of his reflection and of his expression. But, when we speak of a poet-aphorist, the quest for meaning and aesthetics turns out to be an adventure, essentially, interdisciplinary, fruitful and pleasant. We will try to find out what subversive wand this Moroccan aphorist was able to represent or even recreate the image of the woman. Its poetic and philosophical meaning, in addition to its expressive or stylistic art, will be elements to study in order to highlight this means of literary expression that is aphorism and short writing.