The definitive ending of the writer who had seen his own dead. the concept of extinction and " Wounded Homeland" in Dam Al-Gazāl of Mirzaq beqtash

Abstract

 The focus is placed on the figure of the algerian writer Merzaq Bektash (1945-2021) and his narrative production which has not received the attention and praise that it deserves in its arabic context. We try to demostrate how its production is one of the most creative in the scope of modern algerian and arabic novel, as it is deeply characterized by his cultural and social foundations which we can appreciate, specifically, in his short novel Dam al ghazal (“The gazelle´s blood”). In this particular “autobiography”, he depicts the story of the assessination attempt he suffered in 1993, and, at the same time, invests this dramatic affair to build up an own dissertation about the environment of violence that his country was suffering at that time. As we try to contend, the story of his own death is the telling of the current problematic living of his own country, as he develops a unique expressive and discursive style made up by irony, simbolism and a particular mode of engagement with his social and political environment, as his country was been shocked by an unprecedented violence wave during the so called “black decade”  (العشرية السوداء) of the nineties.