The linguistic imagination of Salim Bachi

Abstract

Today, the French-speaking Algerian novel would like to become autonomous through its language, its fiction and its literary vision. It has long been read through socio-historical, identity, contextual criteria, or through otherness. Francophone creative potential has been, and is, always annexed to the colonial scriptural power of the French novel. The linguistic imagination frees the French-speaking author from these criteria which surpass his creativity.

It is through the imagination that the French-speaking Algerian author weaves harmony between his words, the language of the other and his thoughts to make the connection with the society he joins: his own and the French one. The Last Summer of a Young Man by Salim Bachi, the Algerian author, is an example of innovative and modern cultural communication. He appropriates the language of Albert Camus, his “I”, and his word, through an exceptional imagination to invite us to re-think the Nobel Prize-winning author in a purely literary framework