Polyphony in « Les cahiers de Belaid » de Belaid Ait Ali, the first kabyle prose writer

Abstract

Our contribution will focus on the interference of voices and texts in the first Kabyle prose writer Belaid AIT ALI. This is an aspect that we consider important to understand the writing experience through which this singular author has gone. His experience seems to us to deserve our attention because of the very high degree of voice that his work conceals. Any new poetic experience involves interferences, crossings consciously wanted or unconsciously used, and which merge into the text constituting a mosaic of voices that mix with the voice of the author thus forming a new text. By reading "The notebooks of Belaid", the reader is surprised by the very high number of voices which speak in absolute harmony, this is what is called polyphony. These voices intervene in the author's discourse, and the latter seems to want to give them a chance to express themselves and to be the spokesperson
for individuals and the group to which they belong.