THE DREAMS OF REASON by Xavier Domingo. 148 pages. Braziller. $5.
There is a difference between a nightmare and a "nightmare"the cliche that can be applied to anything from a rescue out of an abandoned mine shaft to unusually bad traffic conditions.
A real nightmare puzzles, enervates or scares the victim, and it is a rash man who tries to tell about it.
Xavier Domingo, a 36-year-old Spaniard who works as a literary journalist in Paris, has chosen to write about a civic "nightmare"the 1961 police action against the sub-proletariat of Algerians living in the squalid city outskirtsin terms of a real nightmare.
Afro-Islamic Harlems....
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