L’archéologie de la mémoire dans La Nuit des origines de Nourredine Saadi

Abstract

Memory is the fundamental element that recurs in the story of life of many novelists. We are particularly interested in individual or collective memory, in connection with fiction of certain Maghreb writers, especially the contemporary Maghreb French-speaking author Nourredine Saadi. In his novel "The Night of origins", he immerses the reader in a romantic setting full of symbols transporting him from the past and the present, fictional world where memory and imagination are intimately linked to talk about "the origins ". This implies that the author is trying to draw from fiction in order to find an answer to his identity questioning from which many writers novelists are suffering, i.e, making from a scattered memory a fiction. After having been exiled, Nourredine Saadi wanted to come back to his origins in space and time. He set up the iconic characters that are going to and from between Algeria (the birthplace of the author) and France the land of shelter.
It’s all about a spatial and temporal scatterings as well as a completely split memory. The Exile then leads the main to an internal exile because of his bicultural identity. A thematic framework derives from this story dealing mainly with the identity of the man and his dark origins which constitutes the bottom of the story. Thus the fiction that relies on imagination to build a path leading to the origins, converges to a result, in the sense that all those who have tried to look for the origin of fiction came to the following conclusion: in reality, there is only one fiction of origins. That’s why we need to dissect this pathway to the origin of fiction.