LES RAPPORTS PERSONNELS DE L’ÉCRIVAIN LIBANAIS AMIN MAALOUF AVEC L’ESPACE ORIENTAL NATAL DANS L’ESSAI ORIGINES
THE PERSONAL RELATIONS OF THE LEBANESE WRITER AMIN MAALOUF WITH THE EASTERN NATIVE SPACE IN THE ESSAY ORIGINS

Summary/Abstract: Family is what we cherish the most and the thing we all dream about. It is the first group of people that helps us, teaches and raises us to become the best version of ourselves. The roots we have planted in the ground cannot be broken by any storm or catastrophe and the soil below our feet still bares the blood of our ancestors. Sometimes, due to the tragic history facts we are unable to find the tombstone of our predecessors and there is nobody left to tell their stories. But we know deep inside that nothing can stop us to go back to the place that we love, we respect and we call home. That’s what Amin Maalouf teaches us in his essay “Origines”: the past will wait for you, even if you feel that you can’t understand or rediscover it. It will appear to us like a puzzle with all the pieces scattered around the globe and with no instructions. We will have to depend on luck, destiny and all the senses that we have inherited from our lineage to break through its darkness and bring to light all of those questions that seemed to be a dead end: Why do I look nothing alike my parents? Why is my skin so dark or so pale in rapport with that of my brothers? Why do I feel like I’ve lived this situation before? Our article will analyze the road down on memory lane done by one of the greatest French Lebanese authors, Amin Maalouf, the grief, the loss ant the catharsis that come with an incursion in the cold and gloomy past.

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