Rachid Mimouni ou l’ironie qui met à nu tout un système politique
Rachid Mimouni or the irony that exposes an entire political system

Author(s): Elena-Brândușa Steiciuc
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Government/Political systems
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: Irony; Algeria; Rachid Mimouni; independence war; dictatorship; political system;
Summary/Abstract: Rachid Mimouni, one of Algeria’s most prominent writers during the last decades of the XX thcentury, had a very ironical view of the political system on his country, during the years after the Independence war against France. Like Rachid Boudredra or Nabil Farès, during the same epoch, he criticized the corruption of the ruling class and the rising Islamism. This is why the article attempts to show the ironical side of two of his best-known novels (Le Fleuvedétourné, 1982 and L’Honneur de la tribu, 1989) in which dictatorship is pointed at, both of these writings being parables which mock, in an allegoric way, the political rulers.

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