At literary altitude: Albert Camus's and Mouloud Feraoun's discourses on identity

This study argues that both Albert Camus's and Mouloud Feraoun's discourses on identity are distorted beyond recognition on account of interpretation of their achievements in political and polemical rather than literary critical terms and in disregard of their narratives. Recalling the precedence of literary discourse over the direct forms of discourse in terms of expressive power, this paper proposes a new interpretation of the two authors' concepts of identity based on their literary works.