Abstract: The point is to focus on the intense generic reflection that Rachid Mimouni initiates in La Malédiction. In order to overcome the shock that threatens his ability to write, the author challenges the powers and limits of the novel as a genre by establishing a dialogue between its most opposed trends. The influence of La Malédiction proves that Mimouni has actually reached his goal by giving the francophone Algerian novelists of the black decade a subject matter that allowed them to keep writing after all.
