The article deals with the problematic reconstruction of the tragic autobiography of a clandestine.

The article deals with the problematic reconstruction of the tragic autobiography of a clandestine. The part Ahmed de Bourgogne is born of the collaboration between the clandestine ex-convict Ahmed Beneddif and the renowned French writer and social scientist Azouz Begag, as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but of whom are of Algerian origin and belong to the same beur generation in France. Begag who had already published his possess widely acclaimed autobiography, Le gone du Chaaba, restores Bennedif's fluid oral testimony into a structur literary account, thereby molding the self-representation of the subaltern expose By adopting Beneddif's oral odyssey Begag writes his other unlived destiny--that of