Le Crime Dans L’insomnie De Taher Ben Jelloun

Manassa , Marie Henry

doi:10.12816/0062417

Article Details

Le Crime Dans L’insomnie De Taher Ben Jelloun

Authors:

Manassa , Marie Henry

Publisher:

Dar Annahda Alarabiya

Main Topics:

Afro-Asiatic literatures; Semitic

Journal:

Al-Manafeth Cultural 2024 Issue 46, pp.52-103

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

4/2024

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

271075

Frequency:

Quarterly

eISSN:

27084302

DOI:

10.12816/0062417

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Keywords:

Abstract:

  La littérature maghrébine francophone semble, avec Ben Jelloun, partir pour devenir une grande littérature qui fait exprimer tout un patrimoine culturel. Malgré les énigmes qui l’environnent, ou grâce à elles, sa littérature n’a pourtant pas manqué, au cours des années, des lecteurs divers. Dans L’Insomnie, Ben Jelloun fait sortir de l’ombre où il s’était complu un jeune homme, à statut spécial, condamné à plonger du côté du malheur. En effet, l’antihéros est un scénariste qui devient un tueur en série pour se soulager de ses insomnies morbides. Celles-ci paraissent être la conséquence directe d’une pathologie qui provoque chez le sujet unautodésinvestissement de sa psyché. Face à la monstruosité de l’acte criminel, notre article pose la question: pourquoi tuer? Notre objectif a été de s’identifier au criminel pour essayer de le comprendre, et de nous interroger sur les circonstances de sa vie, sur ses problèmes relationnels et plus particulièrement sur sa relation avec sa mère qui serait probablement à l’initiative de sa perversion.

 Francophone Maghreb literature seems, with Ben Jelloun, to be on its way to becoming a great literature that expresses an entire cultural heritage. In spite of the enigmas that surround it, or because of them, its literature has not lacked, in the course of its years, diverse readers. In L'Insomnie, Ben Jelloun brings out of the shadows in which he had indulged a young man, with a special status, condemned to plunge into the side of misfortune. Indeed, the anti-hero is a screenwriter who becomes a serial killer to relieve himself of his morbid insomnia. This seems to be the direct consequence of a pathology which causes the subject to self-disinvestment in his psyche. Faced with the monstrosity of the criminal act, our article asks the question: why kill? Our objective was to identify with the offender in order to try to understand him, and to question the circumstances of his life, his relationship problems and more particularly his relationship with his mother, who would probably be at the origin of his perversion.

Article Details

Le Crime Dans L’insomnie De Taher Ben Jelloun

Authors:

Manassa , Marie Henry

Publisher:

Dar Annahda Alarabiya

Main Topics:

Afro-Asiatic literatures; Semitic

Journal:

Al-Manafeth Cultural 2024 Issue 46, pp.52-103

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

4/2024

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

271075

Frequency:

Quarterly

eISSN:

27084302

DOI:

10.12816/0062417

Descriptors:

ARABIC LITERATURE

ARABIC FICTION

ARABIC NOVELS

LITERARY CRITICISM

LITERARY ANALYSIS

CRIME

OFFENDERS

MODERN AGE

MOROCCO

violence

Perversion

Passage à l’acte

Angoisse

Crime gratuit

Toute-puissance

Issues

Article Details

Authors: Manassa , Marie Henry

Publisher: Dar Annahda Alarabiya

Main Topics: Afro-Asiatic literatures; Semitic

Journal: Al-Manafeth Cultural 2024 Issue 46, pp.52-103

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 4/2024

Document Language: French

Document ID (Org No.): 271075

Frequency: Quarterly

eISSN: 27084302

DOI: 10.12816/0062417

Descriptors:

Issues

Authors:

Manassa , Marie Henry

Publisher:

Dar Annahda Alarabiya

Main Topics:

Afro-Asiatic literatures; Semitic

Journal:

Al-Manafeth Cultural 2024 Issue 46, pp.52-103

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

4/2024

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

271075

Frequency:

Quarterly

eISSN:

27084302

DOI:

10.12816/0062417