Abstract:
This study is intended as an investigation into the work of Amin Maalouf's "Leo
Africanus. " This raised many novel questions about its position between the real and
fictional. To identify our problem, we resorted to the socio-criticism, specifically the
work of P. Lejeune and P. Gasparini, without omitting Dobrovsky in order to identify
the novel and to say that "Leo Africanus"is an imaginary autobiography as the editor
has described as a sub-text. Our search for clues has exposed a hybrid, neither real nor
imaginary.
