Le périple de Léon l’africain entre le référentiel et l’imaginaire dans l’oeuvre d’Amine Maalouf.

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.