Le sacrifice de la littérature Heur(t)s et malheurs d'une littérature engagée après 1988

Before killing the man, the civil war killed the writer. A major Algerian writer of the 1980s, Rachid Mimouni sacrificed literature on the altar of political struggle against the Islamists in the 1990s. Between L'Honneur de la tribu (1989) and La Malédiction (1993), the delicate balance between literature and politics, which until then had characterized his intellectual struggle, was broken in favor of raw political commitment through authoritarian fiction.