Poétique des espaces romanesques chez Muḥammad Barrāda

Starting with Comme un été qui ne reviendra pas, this study focuses on Barrāda’s reflections on the construction of the Arabic and novelistic “norm”. The Egyptian model, based on a language “full of life and metaphors”, seems to eclipse all others. Yet Barrāda, in Jeu de l’oubli, awakens a novelistic “other”: a very particular Moroccan space filled with ancestral rites and the sounds of Fez