Abstract
<jats:p>This article offers an immanent analysis of the novel Des rêves et des assassins by the Algerian author Malika Mokeddem, focusing on the trajectories of two female characters, Selma and Kenza, in order to examine how exile unfolds through successive and complementary stages. The study highlights an inner exile, characterized by emotional wounds, family tensions, and psychological fractures, which generates disorientation and revolt, and leads to a geographic exile. This spatial mobility, chosen as a refuge and a space for reconstruction, allows Kenza to regain a form of long-restricted freedom. The findings reveal the complexity of the processes of release depicted in the novel and demonstrate how the different forms of exile transform suffering into a source of resilience. The immanent approach makes it possible to identify these textual dynamics while emphasizing the necessity of integrating certain theoretical contributions, such as those of Bolzman, Nicollet, Kristeva, and Douville, to consolidate the conceptual framework of the analysis.</jats:p>