Reality vs. Fiction in Khalil by Yasmina Khadra Cover Image

Le réel à l’épreuve de la fiction dans Khalil de Yasmina Khadra
Reality vs. Fiction in Khalil by Yasmina Khadra

Author(s): Thomas Diette
Subject(s): Fiction, Islam studies, French Literature, Present Times (2010 - today), Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Yasmina Khadra; Khalil; Jihadism power of fiction; knowledge;

Summary/Abstract: In Khalil, Yasmina Khadra paints a realistic portrait of a terrorist. This novel written in 2018 and developed from a real fact, blurs the spaces of reality and fiction to reveal the apparently unavowable thoughts of a jihadist. It is this detour strategy that this article will seek to clarify. It will be a question of studying how Yasmina Khadra organizes a scrambling of these two worlds, the fictional space and the realistic space, located at the edge of each other, to make them interact and confront each other but also to question.

  • Issue Year: 44/2020
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 79-90
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French