Abstract:
Reading the work of Mohammed Moulesshoul published by Enal
Editions in 1989 cannot be detached from the historical context in which it was
written.
LE PREVILÉGE DU PHENIX
is the fruit of a lived, but also of an
emb
ryonic drama about to happen in a country where marks are getting blurry.
Therefore, at the end of the eighties, most of the Algerian population was
progressively getting detached from a washed
-
out colonial past in the hope of a
promising future.
However, for the writer, explicitly mentioning the embryonic drama
was not tolerated; he was even arrested by the censorship committee constantly
surveying his writings.
Hence, taking the reader back to the colonial time doesn
’
t only s
erve
the purpose of straightening the minds and to counter forgetting, it primarily
serves to draw parallels with the current events.
The recourse to the symbolic imagination that colors the myth and the
parabola seems to be a very subtle mec
hanism to weld both realities and setup
the analogy.
The symbolism has also a redeeming value, it attenuates the conflict in
which the censored writer struggled and allows him to go forward with the
principals for which he fights.
