L'effacement

L'effacement

by Samir Toumi

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Ce dissection psychologique du conflit de deux générations -- les peres surs d'eux-memes et batisseurs d'un pays neuf; les fils blesses, comme condamnes a la folie -- Toumi raconte l' histoire d' un algérien de quarante-quatre ans qui se lève un matin et ne voit plus son reflet dans le miroir. Il panique et va consulter un psychiatre. Ce dernier lui apprend qu' il est atteint du " syndrome de l'effacement ". Un mal étrange qui semble frapper exclusivement les fils d'anciens combattants de la guerre de Libération. On apprend par la suite que cet homme est le fils d' un grand Moudjahid, très connu, et on découvre, à travers les confidences qu'il fait au psychiatre, le mode de vie de toute une génération, celle des années soixante-dix et des années quatre-vingt -- et comment ces hommes ont eu du mal à exister et à émerger face à la génération précédente qui a libéré le pays et a été glorifiée? In this psychological dissection of the conflict of generations, Toumi tells the story of a 44-year-old Algerian man who rises one morning and no longer sees his reflection in the mirror. Panicking, he goes to a psychiatrist who tells him that he is suffering from "erasure syndrome"--A strange malody that seems to strike exclusively the sons of veterans of the Liberation War. Through the confidences he makes to his psychiatrist, the way of life of an entire generation, that of the Seventies and the Eighties, is revealed -- and how these men found it difficult to exist and to emerge from in front of the previous generation that liberated the country and was glorified.

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