In a political context where a totalitarian regime rules and where society is dominated by three taboos, i.e. politics, religion, and sex, writers usually cultivate a reflexive relationship to censorship. Algerian Rachid Boudjedra is one of these writers. He has ambivalent relations with censorship. Boudjedra sometimes dodges censorship, and he sometimes lays claim to it in a playful relationship with the regime.The article examines the strategies of circumvent censorship used by Rachid Boudjedra (the unsaid, the silences, the lunacy, the polyphony, the irony, the ambiguity) and the strategies of creation in a context of repression or war. The article also shows how the literary work is shaped by censorship and by the liberating power which obliges to write in order to channel the thought toward poetical writing.