FETITAH, SAFAALACHACHI, AMINA2025-11-242025-11-242025https://dspace.univ-temouchent.edu.dz/handle/123456789/6915In this dissertation, we propose to take charge of the figures and identities of the characters in the novel Les rivières impassible by Akram El Kebir which allude to the Algerian reality sucked in by illegal migration, but also the thematic circularity which includes hope, disillusionment and failure. It is through narratological and thematic approaches which will be spread over two chapters that we attempt to answer the following problem: “How does the novel impassible rivers depict the failure of a quest for oneself through migration, where the distance from the country of origin seems to generate not a liberation, but a reversal of identity markers? »frillegal migrationquest for identityfailurehopeThesis