La douleur d'être et la lourdeur du temps: une lecture existentialiste de Trois jours et le néant de Youssef Wahboun
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the question of existentialism in Trois jours et le neant by the Moroccan writer Youssef Wahboun. The novel constitutes a complex diagnosis of the social conditions of the characters evidently based in present day Morocco, according it the status of discourse on the Moroccan social reality. However, this article is premised on the argument that through the use of language pregnant with multiple strata of meanings, the novel delocalizes its imaginative space, stretching its significance beyond its visible contextual borders. In other words, the text addresses the complexity of the human condition in general. In another dimension, the inevitable passage of time posits as the central element of the inscrutability of the human condition, the quest for meaning and self-realisation in the society. The article focuses on the portrait of characters, especially the protagonist as a symbol of the existentialist human angst, caused both by his immobilism and his restlessness in space and time. Wahboun’s narrative technics and his naturalistic portrayal of characters’ interiority grant the reader access to their daily worries, their spaces of interaction and the motifs behind their (in)actions. If the criticism of postcolonial novel has oftentimes been limited to the political and less on the human dimension, Wahboun’s novel constitutes an invitation for an alteration in this disposition that sometimes obscures and limits the universal dimension and depth of African literature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".