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AbstractVery often called upon by both writers of the young generation and academics from his native land and from the rest of the Maghreb, Kateb Yacine has more than once taken up his pen to write prefaces. Based on conciseness, with a maximum length of 6 pages, his prefatory discourse adopts an individual stance that falls between Flaubert's categorical refusal to write prefaces and Sartre's abuse thereof. Kateb accepts to write prefaces, but with a sense of mesure. Strictly speaking, he refuses to act as a literary critic, preferring rather to shift the focus to the social and political aspects of the works he prefaces. Indeed, the author of Nedjma was uncomfortable in the role of preface writer, since he increasingly felt that the genre was, by its very nature, overly paternalistic.
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