Jodorowsky uses the Tarot as his narrative grammar. He admits in the text that he constructed the chronology not by dates, but by the Arcana . The “Hanged Man” represents his father’s paralysis; the “Tower” represents the collapse of the family store; the “Moon” represents his mother’s hysteria. This is the book’s secret engine: Jodorowsky is not remembering. He is divining .
How does one end a book called Nothing Opposes the Night ? One does not find a sunrise. Jodorowsky concludes not with redemption, but with transmutation .
The book is structured into three main parts, characterized by different narrative perspectives that reflect the author's investigative process: