Analyse sociopoétique du séisme chez Nina Bouraoui

Nina Bouraoui’s novel entitled The Day of the Earthquake can be seen as a literary testimony to a natural disaster, namely the earthquake. Occurring on October 10, 1980, the El Asnam earthquake in Algeria is studied for its violence with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale. The Franco-Algerian writer does not fail to give a romantic dynamic to this event marking her personal history. In her text, she makes use of a scripture in which the reader feels the seismic tremors. In other words, the lexical resources envisaged by Nina Bouraoui give her novel published in 1999 a seismographic aesthetic that should be analyzed through the prism of the theoretical tools of sociopoetics. This field, promoted by Alain Montandon and now declassified for multidisciplinary reasons, offers the channel for the study of the novel in the light of its representations, both social and imaginary. In this regard, Nina Bouraoui was able to share with the reception of her text the style effects contained in textual strategies for representing trauma, childhood, mobility and identity in crisis.