Sara BENAIDJA2022-01-042022-01-042021-06UNIVERSITE MOHAMED BOUDIAF - M’SILAAN/67/2021http://dspace.univ-msila.dz:8080//xmlui/handle/123456789/27644In the analysis of literary works, Time and Space are two important concepts to remember. These two concepts were studied separately because they were unrelated. To find out the word ‘Chronotope’, Mikhail Bakhtin believed they were equivalent and related. The aim of this research is to examine and apply the chronotope theory to Hisham Matar’s autobiography The Return (2016) which is likely to become a classic. Since the concepts of Time and Space are discussed differently in various works of literature depending on the literary movement and genre to which the work belongs, the perception of these two significant elements has evolved from antiquity to contemporaneity. Understanding the temporal and spatial connections in the memoire requires a chronotopic reading of The Return. Thus, the present study emphasizes the value of the chronotope as a medium for depicting experience, memory, history and culture.enliterary theory, chronotope, Mikhail Bakhtin, The Return (2016), space-time relationsThesis