Abstract
This article explores the philosophical framework of Rachid Boudjedra's novel Topographie ideale pour une agression caracterisee by focusing on his conception of space, time, and intersubjectivity. It will be argued that Boudjedra's philosophy bears many similarities to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's musings on time and intersubjectivity as expressed in Phenomenologie de la perception. An opposition emerges between two irreconcilable conceptions of time which suggests a wider conflict between what Merleau-Ponty terms ‘objective thought’ and the protagonist's experience of time. The article charts the means by which the protagonists' perceptual experiences, related by an omniscient narrator, merge into a form of shared consciousness or intersubjectivity reminiscent of what Merleau-Ponty calls ‘multiple solipsism’.Cet article examine la base philosophique de Topographie ideale pour une agression caracterisee, un roman de l'ecrivain algerien Rachid Boudjedra, en se concentrant sur sa conception de l'espace, du temp...
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