Le corps masculin à l’épreuve de l’aventure olfactive dans Les Humeurs de Marie-Claire de Habib Selmi

After he immigrates to Paris, a relationship leads Mahfouz to discover feminine alterity. This relationship makes him confront his traditionalist education and forces him to profoundly question his identity. Sexual union takes him back to his childhood: a mysterious birth, physical frailty and a sense of smell mature beyond its years. Aware of what makes him different, which is denounced as a lack of virility, he is led to rethink his masculinity through his olfactory passion for Marie-Claire, while remaining between European and Arab-Muslim culture.