La mémoire et le temps dans «Les Alouettes naïves» d’Assia Djebar
Memory and time in Assia Djebar’s novel Les Alouettes naïves

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes themes of collective memory and time in Assia Djebar’s early novel Les Alouettes naďves basing its approach firstly on Halbwachs’s sociology of memory, and, in the case of the protagonist Rachid’s memory, on Freudian thought of trauma. Halbwachs, contrary to Bergson, sees the individual conscience and the individual memory not as being limited to a person, and thus closed in itself, but as a meeting point of different collective memories, where the latter concept is defined as a memory of a particular social group. The article author first analyzes the memory of Omar, Nfissa and Rachid, the three protagonists of the novel, commencing his analysis with the study of the memory of Omar, the autodiegetic narrator. Omar’s individual memory is seen as the intersection of family memory, of collective memory he shares with Rachid, his closest friend, and of partisans for independence memory, all those collective memories being interior and interiorized. Moreover, the first two memories are closely interwoven, as Rachid is Omar’s relative.

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