Tahar Djaout, between 1975 and 1993, the journey of a writer or the mourning of the art of writing

Abstract

Our study deals with two important periods in the creative life of the Algerian writer Tahar Djaout. On one hand, we will tackle the seventies , where the adventure of thoughts and expressions ' freedom began with the appearance of the first DJAOUT ‘s volume of poetry entitled Solstice barbelé in Canada. On the other hand, the 1990s, when the intellectual and journalist was a victim of Islamist terrorism, a tragic scene, which is part of a series of attacks perpetrated against Algerian writers ,and symbolizes all fight against silence and indifference. In fact, these two dates (otherwise 1975/1993) do not only reflect the history of a country (socialism and nation building / post-independence socio-political history that is characterized by multi-partyism in favour of the constitution of 1989 / the rise of Islamist fundamentalism and the beginning of the dark decade) or the Algerian political system, but they demonstrate how art echoes the world and how this echo can be killed. Indeed, from the career of Djaout's writing, in connection to the events that have marked a large part of the history of Algeria, we will discuss the elements, which present to us a work on the figures of meaning and mediation (characters),and subsequently became the fruit of a reflection on the existence, the isolation of academics , the temptation of the question, and the ideological footprint that represents the dangers of the expression 's libration by helping to reshape ideas or to repel forgetfulness.