Le clos et l’ouvert. La représentation de la ville dans les romans de Rachid Boudjedra

With the subversive writings of literary modernity, space undergoes the law of referential de-anchoring. For Rachid Boudjedra, the city cannot be perceived independently of the historical issues of the question of memory and colonization. But the novelist’s entire art consists of freeing urban space from its referential function to place it in a more complex structure, which engages in deep reflection on the future of Algeria. Boudjedra will then give us, with the city, a symbolic topography which sum-marizes the multiple crises of the subject and the community, including the symptomatic transition from the drama of colonization to that of radicalism