Tlemcen ou la source des sources

Abstract

The work of the Algerian writer of French expression Mohammed Dib, entitled Tlemcen ou les lieux de l’écriture and published in 1993, is a singular opus : associating pictures taken by the young Dib just after the Second World War to pictures taken almost fifty years later by French photographer Philippe Bordas, the book is a pretext for the writer in an exploration by the writing of a specific city, Tlemcen, and strata memory which make it up. But it is also in an exploration of the dibian work that this opus invites : to paint the portrait of Tlemcen, undertaken in essence infinite, consists in painting the portrait of a writing.

Keywords

• Photographie
• Tlemcen
• Mémoire
• Ville
• Écriture
• Portrait