La fin qui nous attend of Ryad Girod Desacralizing the Writing of the Blacque Decade or When No One Is Innocent

Résumé

— This article analyzes Ryad Girod’s novel La fin qui nous attend (2015) as a representative work of Algerian postmodernity. We explore how Girod breaks with the conventions of “emergency literature” by addressing the events of the Black Decade through the lens of a desacralized and reclaimed myth of the Apocalypse. This study examines the scriptural specificities of Girod’s writing, which align it with a unique Algerian postmodernity defined by a rupture with the totalizing discourses of the past whileremaining a powerful tool for contesting Algeria’s socio-political realities.