Autopsy of the Fleeing Memory in "A Thousand Years, One Day" by Edmond Amran El Maleh

Abstract

             The impossibility of grasping memory in modern literature is tantamount to the dispersion of the subject. A subject in search of himself from a liquid memory based on the principle of lability and looking for landmarks to solidify himself. This modernity is a revolution that has not been without its challenges. Proof of this can be found in the writings of Edmond Arman El Maleh, a French-speaking Moroccan writer, where the fragmentary takes over. We find new techniques resulting from an imagination led towards vagueness that informs about the previous reality of the writer. In A thousand years, one day, for example, all the new components obey sensory nuances that punctuate the space of the Malehian lie-true. The lack of precision and life in spaces between dreams and hallucinations is recovered by a sensory memory that calls us to order.