In his novel L’effacement, published in 2016, Samir Toumi presented the image of the generation born after Algeria’s independence on the ex‐ ample of the main character. It is a generation condemned to live in the shadow of the great parents who fought in the Algerian War against France. L’effacement is an interesting example of the development of the genre which is récit de filiation. The aim of the article is to describe the difficult filiation in the novel by Toumi: the relationship of children with parents disturbed by the unlimited appetite for power in the previous generation.

In his novel L’effacement, published in 2016, Samir Toumi presented the image of the generation born after Algeria’s independence on the ex‐ ample of the main character. It is a generation condemned to live in the shadow of the great parents who fought in the Algerian War against France. L’effacement is an interesting example of the development of the genre which is récit de filiation. The aim of the article is to describe the difficult filiation in the novel by Toumi: the relationship of children with parents disturbed by the unlimited appetite for power in the previous generation.