« Révolution, épreuves Initiatiques Et Symbolique Du Tissage Dans Le Métier à Tisser De Mohamed Dib »

We propose in the present article a demonstration about the dimension of the weaving symbolic in Le Métier à tisser, the third part of the triptych of Mohammed Dib, published in 1957. In the light of a mythanalytic lecture (Gilbert Durand, Les Structures anthropologiques de l’imaginaire), we will show, at first, the relation between the weavers who work in the underground in such a womb’s cavity which symbolises the preparing Algerian Revolution. At the second hand, we will prove that the presence of the teenager Omar in the cavity is a kind of an orphic diving, through which he would undergo many initial tests at the end of which he would emerge completely transformed, fully conscious of all what awaits him.