Abstract
Abstract: In this article, we consider the question of the imaginary in literature from a poetic and anthropological perspective by trying to show the relationships between the two dimensions in the French-speaking Maghrebian text of Mohammed Khair Eddine. The notion of the imaginary sometimes intrigues, but we aim here to limit its meanings in order to channel its significance. According to Jean-Paul Sartre, the imaginary is “the projection of a mental image onto an object”. In this sense, we can understand that imagination is not reality but the relationship of an imaging consciousness to an imagined object. In the context of literature or works of art in general, we could therefore ask the following question: what are the images favoured by authors, in this case French-speaking writers, in their works? What is the nature of this imaginary that the literary work reproduces as a work of art?
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Benaziz, Mohammed
(2022)
"Imagination, identity and the poetics of explosion in the work of Khair-Eddine,"
SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 5:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol5/iss1/6