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Dreams
by Wajdi Mouawad, trans.
Linda Gaboriau
A young man enters a hotel
room and spends a sleepless night, jotting words down on paper, the
prelude, perhaps, to a novel in the making. Haunted by his imagination
and by the characters who appear to him, the writer, slowly but surely,
will recognize someone who will complete this world: the Hotelkeeper,
a woman who has never been haunted by such questions, but who has suddenly
become a victim of fate.
WILLEM: That’s it. The very
essence of the reason that draws a character to one author rather than
another is very simple: they both harbour, at the bottom of their hearts,
the same loss. Exactly the same! That’s what is called the miracle
of creation, creation beyond reason and logic, the kind that lives free
as the wind and is truly ineffable. A being who doesn’t exist harbours
the same pain as one who does, and paper becomes their common ground,
the bed where they come together and make love so that from their loss,
they can give birth to the beauty that is theirs!
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