Questions of Existence and Culture in the Gnostic Novel of Abdelilah Ben Arafa: Towards an Interpretative Model

Abstract

Talking about Gnostic discourse in general, and about Gnostic narration in particular, is a 
turning towards those existential, metaphysical worlds that inevitably produce spiritual 
relationships between the self and its reality, and between the self and existence, with the aim of 
touching upon the reality of the act of identification between the ego (human being) as a part, 
and the absolute as a whole in a transcendent, luminous crucible.