Mémoire, oubli et quête de vérité dans l’écriture poétique et romanesque de Hédi Bouraoui
Memory, Oblivion and Search for the Truth in Hédi Bouraoui’s Poems and Novels

Summary/Abstract: Our article attempts to reveal, through the analysis of Hédi Bouraoui’s writing, the active work of memory and oblivion. How do memory and oblivion relate to each other? How do the author’s individual recollections and the collective historical memory meet to bring the past back to the foreground? How do Bouraoui’s literary works reflect Lethe’s mythical creativity that testifies to the existential quest for the truth (aletheia)? Inspired by these questions, we shall try to shed some light on the notion of return, which consists in forgetting the present for the benefit of the distant past, in order to ensure, through introspection and a retrospective and regressive gaze, the return – to oneself and to the other – by means of the artistic creation. This aim requires a close focus on the notions of memory and oblivion themselves: rather than considering them as opposites, we suggest to understand them in the light of the return and the quest for the truth. This would allow us to define the framework of our approach and its validity.

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