Imaginaire identitaire/identité imaginaire dans Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud: question(s) de démêlés…

" Identity is approached from the perspective of the genre of literary counter- investigation, in the wake of Laurent Demanze’s study Un nouvel âge de l’enquête. In post-colonial Algeria, the motif of spectrality is bound up with an imaginary of grief and impossible mourning, typified by Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête. In this context, identity is synonymous with alienation. Like his predecessors Camus and Assia Djebar, Daoud is conducting his own quest for freedom, promoting the relational and ethical value of the imaginary as a universal network of images that counter the narrow enclosure of nationalist and fundamentalist discourse in a fundamentally dynamic encounter with the world and the other."