Mouvance et pause Retour et déconstruction de l’espace-temps dans Noces de mulet de Tahar Ouettar

By way of his movements and wanderings, Hadj Kayenne tries to create his ‘inner labyrinth’ (Bonn, Khadda, Mdarhri-Alaoui, 1996: 23): his Algeria before the war of National Liberation. A great reader of the Sufis and Arabic poets, he subordinates love to a mystic quest, revisiting and reviving the historical figures of a golden age.