Men and women, power relationships, resistance and destruction in Surtout ne te retourne pas By Maïssa Bey

Surtout ne te retourne pas (2005) is Maïssa Bey’s novel in homage dedicated to victims of Boumerdès’ 2003 earthquake. Author uses an anecdote of a country adrift, a youth psychologically weakened by the strong reigning social hypocrisy, human relationships altered, between members of a family unit, men and women, also between people and their political representatives. Devisions are numerous and their consequences are disastrous on community life. The present article treats the problem of men/women relations, token under the ideological conflicts of the 90s, to say how the dislocation of human relationships, author's bias towards the social slump of that period were. Concepts borrowed from M. Foucault’s “la théorie du discours” will serve as tools of approach to see the disarticulation of these relationships. It will be question of external shares, exclusive from the order of discourse, in particular, the allowed, reason and the will to truth. A fourth concept will be added to this three to strengthen the analysis, it will be the reversal concept. This article will aim to show how social dislocation, caused by false interpretations of Islam, is advocated by fundamentalist currents ready to destroy anyone who opposes them, under the pen of Maïssa Bey.