L’intrusion du Fantastique dans les Nouvelles Écritures Algériennes : le cas des romans de Djamel Mati

Abstract

The intrusion of the Fantastic in the New Algerian Writings: the case of the novels of Djamel Mati

This contribution aims at questioning the way with which the Algerian Writer D. Mate introduces the fantastic in the diegetic universe inclined to the phantasmagorias of the tormented lucubration’s of the characters in quest of themselves. In this perspective, the Writer elaborates a new interactive and dynamic relationship between the moving and chimerical spatiality’s of "point B114" and the fantastic lucubration’s of atypical characters on the reading of "Sweet-sour, the lucubration’s of a tormented mind" and "It looks like the South". The researcher attempts to show how such dynamics is elaborated in the wake of a new Algerian writing of dreams and delirium, the liberation of forms and senses through a singular fantasy with innovative scriptural mechanisms to showtheir philosophical and ontological nature, consubstantial with the human condition. In conclusion, we will say that the fantastic is omnipresent in the phantasmagorical diegetic universe by the multiplication of hallucinatory, strange and inexplicable phenomena experienced by the tormented characters in search of themselves. However, Mati's scriptural aesthetic does not content itself with "threading" them in the narrative continuum: it draws eclecticly from other codes of the fantastic, ranging from the strange inexplicable to that of the disturbing Freudian strangeness to establish a sort of dismantling of time and space opening up to infinity in a supernatural dreamlike timelessness that escapes the classical spatio-temporal benchmarks (space, duration, dating). In Mati, the "raw" fantasy is not introduced into a world where enchantment goes without saying, it is the fruit of hallucinations, daydreams and dreamlike delusions of characters inclined to systematically consume sweet and sour pills and hookahs stuffed with Indian hemp. The intrusion of an eclectic and hybrid fantasy into a composite conglomeration of hallucinatory micro-narratives allows the expression of an existential malaise which the wandering characters seeks to circumscribe through strange and inexplicable experiences. Finally, the intrusion of a fantastic singular invades in an original and singular way the entire surface of the text through the excrescences of the hallucinatory dream, of the oneiric fabulation and refers implicitly to the impalpable ontological mystery which privileges the questioning of the human condition and the entity of being.