Tell me about the dream

The novel "Tell Me the Dream" by the Moroccan writer "Abdel Fattah Kilito" constitutes a journey into the anecdotes and jokes from "One Thousand and One Nights," but with renewed and different forms and characters that sometimes allude to other works by the author. Abdel Fattah Kilito draws inspiration for his narration from his childhood memories, his imagination, and his reflections on writing and reading, especially his unconventional reading of the literary masterpiece "One Thousand and One Nights," which influenced his early writings. The narrator of this novel, or one of the narrators, says, at one moment: "Inside every reader is a sleeping Shahryar." Could it also be said: "Inside every writer is a sleeping Scheherazade"? And what if Scheherazade and Shahryar—the thin thread of blood, cruelty, art, and imagination that unites them—are the model and the distant, present pulse in every novel and every narration? And what if "One Thousand and One Nights" is the melody of decision in every voice of the narrators as they sing their literary world? And what if the novels written after, in number as countless as pebbles and stars, are merely variations on Scheherazade’s whispering voice with her tales in the Baghdad night? This novel, with its intertwined narrators and interconnected characters, comes to us from the circle of magic that Scheherazade left behind and creates, so that narration, speech, and art never cease.