الشخصيات المرجعية بين سلطة الموروث الثقافي و إلزامات المستعمر

Abstract EN

This work explores characterization in Mouloud Mammeri's novel, the sleep of the just, using narrative semiotics-a theory concerned with issues of meaning by studying characterization.

i have drawn on Philips hamon's approach which regards a character as a state of process of reading whose making coincides with the act of reading, and whose significance is only completed at end of reading.

i have focused on character categories, specifically the "referential character", whose existence and aspects have been inspired by the contradiction of Algerian tops of Mammeri's time.

these character-type represent those realities and summarize the contradictions of the Algerian person, its fragmentation and its tearing apart between two forces, that of the native cultural heritage and that of the authority of the French other.