RÉTICENCE ET SUSPENSION DANS LE ROMAN DJEBARIEN, « LE BLANC DE L’ALGÉRIE »
RETICENCE AND SUSPENSION IN DJEBAR'S NOVEL "THE WHITE FROM ALGERIA"

Summary/Abstract: Assia Djebarʼs francophone literary work brings together autobiographical elements and events shaped in order to create a more specific kind of imaginary: the Djebarian one. Our paper dwells upon the way she realignes historical facts and episodes issued from her individual memory so that the process of writing holds within the expressed thoughts and the unsaid, the silence, “l’inachevé”. Her novel, Le Blanc de l’Algérie, is a proof of this harmony between reticence, missing words and hints whose meaning is revealed along the narrative and contributes to the rhetorical process of suspension (lat. “sustentatio”). So we have the possibility to extrapolate new perspectives related to contextual elements introduced by the writer so as to challenge the reader to wonder and imagine. The permanent aim is to arouse curiosity and introduce the reader to events of the recalling past.

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