This paper will, in the light of semiotics, explore how Sami Tchak, through an effort to write free of the classical canons, has given freedom of tone as well as the breakdown of structure as an additional element of meaning in La Fête des masques. In this novel, the author adopts a style of a new writing, characterized by the enunciative blurring, stepping away from the Balzacian style, depicting scriptural violence, doubtful setting and especially making caricature of political figures. Thus, the author makes explicit his consideration for the European classical model and portrays himself as a proponent of the African literary aesthetics renewal.
Keywords: Fragmentary writing, renewal, literary aesthetics, clumsiness, deconstruction.
