Algeria: a Difficult Affiliation. Samir Toumi’s L’effacement Cover Image

L’Algérie : une filiation difficile. L’effacement de Samir Toumi
Algeria: a Difficult Affiliation. Samir Toumi’s L’effacement

Author(s): Jędrzej Pawlicki
Subject(s): French Literature, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: filiation; Algerian War; Samir Toumi;

Summary/Abstract: In his novel L’Effacement, published in 2016, Samir Toumi presents the image of the generation born after Algeria’s independence on the example of the main character. It is a generation condemned to live in the shadow of the great parents who fought in the Algerian War against France. L’Effacement is an interesting example of the development of the genre which is récit de filiation. The aim of the article is to describe the difficult filiation in the novel by Toumi: the relationship of children with parents disturbed by the unlimited appetite for power in the previous generation.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 99-109
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French
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