Satire, points de vue et déradicalisation dans Moi, Khaled Kelkal de Salim Bachi

Abstract

, Khaled Kelkalevokes the trajectory of Khaled Kelkal, son of Algerian immigrants from the Lyon suburbs, radicalized in prison, and involved in various terrorist attacks in France in 1995. Although the novel takes the form of a testimony from Kelkal with a single voice,polyphony allows Salim Bachi to constantly make two points of view coincide within the narration, that of the radicalized and that of a skeptic Other, who gauges various speeches, and is sort of a double of the author. Points of view and intertextuality allow the reader to exercise their critical mind, making the novel both a pedagogical text on jihadist recruitment and a praxis of deradicalization.