Relire Fassih à la lumière de Beckett Les fonctions de l intertexte dans L hiver 62

Undoubtedly Ismail Fassih is one of the mostwidely read writers in contemporary literature. However, his name generallyis not considered in the field of the great contemporary fiction writers.His writing style, which is derived from Persian colloquial; and the detective fictionplot, the vivid and fascinating characters of his fictions has lead the literary critics to classify his works in the subgroup of folk literatureor paraliterature. But the new tools in the literary criticism have let us to reveal a so far hidden heritage in one of his most famous novels: Winter 62. The novelsnarrator frequently mentions Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece,and makes a subtle but illustrative link between what is read and what is narrated. This article, with rely on the intertextual links between the Winter 62 and the Waiting for Godot, has tried to use a new approach for looking at the Fassih's novel.