Vagabondage dans Le Mont Damion d’André Dhôtel

2014 ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Komandera
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
Rich Family ◽  
French Author

The paper discusses the theme of wandering in the novel by French author André Dhôtel. The protagonist of Le Mont Damion, Fabien Gort, is not a typical vagrant, as he is a member of an intellectual and quite rich family. However, because of his strong absent-mindedness and strangeness, Fabien is unable to find a place in social structures. People’s hostility leads him to many wanderings and unexpected encounters which influence his existence. The novel seems to be also a generic wandering, as it possesses some features of picaresque novel, adventure novel, initiation story and fairytale fantasy.

Honoring the Form: Zen Moves in Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Collins
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Racial Politics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Eastern Philosophy ◽  
Charles Johnson ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
The World

AbstractIn Being and Race Charles Johnson compares a writer working with traditional forms to a martial artist who “honors the form” of his predecessors. In his 1982 novel Oxherding Tale Johnson honors the form of a number of traditional fictional genres, including the slave narrative, the picaresque novel, the philosophical novel of ideas, and Zen texts such as koans, sutras, and the twelfth-century graphic narrative, the “Oxherding Pictures.” Calling his novel a “slave narrative that serves as the vehicle for exploring Eastern philosophy,” Johnson alludes to Hindu, Taoist and Buddhist texts, as well as to Western literary and philosophical works, to dissolve the dualistic thinking at the heart of what he calls “the samsara of racial politics.” To be free of the illusory nature of “ontological dualism,” however, one must journey through stages of increasing awareness, admirably depicted in the ten illustrations of the “Oxherding Pictures.” From seeking a self (ox) that one thinks one has lost, to glimpsing the self that is first elusive and finally illusory, the seeker comes to realize that all identities are constructed and therefore temporary, including such notions as “race” and “self.” Like some biracial Everyman, Johnson’s narrator may not complete the journey by the end of the novel but he discovers much about the insubstantiality and inter-connectedness of himself in the world along the way.

scholarly journals R. GARY ON IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE IN THE NOVEL «WHITE DOG»

2021 ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
Татьяна Георгиевна Струкова
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
The Novel ◽  
French Author ◽  
Identity And Difference

Статья посвящена исследованию проблемам национальной идентичности, реализации авто/гетеростереотипов в межличностной коммуникации в романе французского писателя Р. Гари «Белая собака». Автор анализирует писательское представление о тождестве и различии, об истоках конфликта, который в XXI веке получил название «расизм наоборот». The article is devoted to the investigation of problems of national identity, realization of auto and getero stereotypes in interpersonal communication in the novel by the French author R. Gary «White Dog». The author analyses the writer’s idea on identity and difference, the beginnings of the conflict that is named «racism inversely» in the XXI century.

Feministic Analysis of Arundhati Roy's Postmodern Indian Fiction: The God of Small Things

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
A. Hariharasudan ◽  
S. Robert Gnanamony
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Generation Family ◽  
Paper Review ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Small Things

Objective - The aim of the research is to identify the feminist strains in the postmodern Indian Fiction The God of Small Things (TGST). The researcher has planned to investigate the text systematically for seeking feministic values. Methodology/Technique - The study reviews previous literature. Findings - Gender bias and feminism are relevant themes explored by postmodernists. Arundhati Roy portrays the predicament of women through her female characters belonging to three generations in this novel. In the novel, a sense of antagonism and division also infuse the difference senses of identity among the different generation of women. It also generates a line of the clash between the older and the younger generation. Family and political customs play a key role in disadvantaging women. Social constrains are so built up as to sanctify the persecution of women. This is because, in most of the civilizations, social structures are basically patriarchal. Arundhati's novel challenges this position, though her avowed feminist stance. Novelty - Women across the globe worldwide, nationwide, regionally and may be capable of holding the influential note of feminism and being capable of deconstructing a constructive implication of their own femaleness and womanhood after reading this paper. Type of Paper: Review Keywords: Feminism; Gender Bias; Patriarchal; Postmodernism; Downtrodden. JEL Classification: B54, H83.

Die Bedeutung des Gelesenen: Eine komparatistische Studie über Rainer Maria Rilke und Marcel Proust

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-211
Author(s):  
Maria Slavtscheva
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Model ◽  
Marcel Proust ◽  
Rainer Maria Rilke ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
French Author ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract The article discusses the hierarchical model of readers’ types outlined by Marcel Proust in his essay “Journées de lecture” and reconstructs Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetics of reading in accordance with the poems “Der Lesende” and “Der Leser” as well as the thematic relevant parts of the novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. Based on the conclusions made thereby, it draws attention to the possibilities arising from a comparative reading of the description of the scene in which the young Marcel reads in the garden of Combray from Proust’s Du côté de chez Swann, and Rilke’s poem “Hebend die Blicke vom Buch”. Moreover, it is shown that in this short but complex poem, the German poet fulfills the ideal of a unity of reading and writing emphasized by the French author. Combining the motive of looking away from the book typical of his prose and poetry with Proust’s typical motive of the memory of a certain read, Rilke brings into being a poetic picture of reading, which triggers both the memory and the reflection, and an image of a reader that reveals his own productive reception.

Reconceiving the Divine in Eliette Abécassis’ La répudiée

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-393
Author(s):  
Raquelle K Bostow
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
The Face ◽  
French Author

Abstract Eliette Abécassis’ La répudiée (2000) narrates a rare story of female mystical practice in the face of her impending repudiation from a Hasidic community, which excludes women from intellectual engagement with religious texts. Set in the fictionalised neighbourhood of Meah Shearim in Jerusalem, the novel’s main character, Rachel, faces a divorce under the law of halakhah when she fails to become pregnant after ten years of marriage. Yet, throughout the novel, Rachel asserts her own individualised spiritual practice by locating the ‘divine’ within the love that she shares with her partner, placing her on the path of mysticism. To articulate Rachel’s intuition of the divine within human relationships, I rely on French author Hélène Cixous’ secularised notion of the juifemme: a woman who rewrites sacred texts, conceives of a God detached from dogmatic religion, and locates the divine within the other and the self.

scholarly journals La ironía y la parodia en las novelas cervantinas como respuesta al género picaresco

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco de Borja Rodríguez Álamo
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Picaresque Novel ◽  
The Moment

One of the main characteristics of Cervantes’s novel is irony, which appears perhaps in all his texts. Irony and parody are not exclusive to the Cervantine novel, even to the picaresque novel, although they make here one of their first great appearances in the genre of the novel. Which is crucial for the latter’s development and subsequent consolidation. Irony is a search for a new way of understanding literature. In the present work, an analysis of one of the positions that Cervantes adopts before the competition and stimulation that the morphological proposals of picaresque, from Lazarillo to Guzmán, through his novels, from the praise to freedom, is intended of the picaresque life of the illustrious mop; the moment in which Rincon and Cortado laugh at the devotion of the brotherhoods of Monipodio thinking that they would be saved from their crimes, or from the linguistic mistakes of the brothers; against the digressions of the Guzman in the mouth of Cipión, or the mere conversion of the rogues into dog-men, without forgetting the words of Ginés de Pasamonte about autobiography.

scholarly journals La Peste d’Albert Camus : une analyse de la société coloniale algérienne à travers le prisme de l’épidémie

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Berardi
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels

March 2020: as Coronavirus continues spreading across the globe, the well-known novel La Peste (1947) by Albert Camus appeals to new readers all over the world. This article offers a new modest reading of La Peste by adopting an approach which emerges from the intersection between Environmental Humanities and Postcolonial Studies. We will explore to what extent the plague is an allegory of human suffering and isolate the different levels on which the allegory may work. Furthermore, we will focus on the link between the representation of the plague outbreaking in Oran and the French-Algerian, multiethnic society. What will the “epidemic fiction” reveal about social structures and practices in the context of colonial Algeria’s last years of existence, and how? The representation of the epidemic seems to mirror the inequalities of that colonial society that is not depicted in the novel, and yet it reminds the reader that societies are constructed and thus, can be improved.

scholarly journals Le réel entre mimesis et transgression dans Jérémie ! Jérémie ! de Dominique Fernandez

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Magniez
Keyword(s):  
Young Student ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Politique Sociale ◽  
French Author

Jérémie ! Jérémie ! est l’un des ouvrages les plus récents de Dominique Fernandez. Cette fiction évoque le séjour d’un jeune étudiant sur l’île d’Haïti, sa découverte du pays et les émois amoureux qu’il y ressentira. La description d’Haïti, par le prisme du héros romanesque, permet un jeu habile avec la géographie politique du lieu : mêlant réflexion historique, descriptions détaillées et aventures fictives, l’auteur parvient à créer un espace riche de vérité et de sens, où le réel acquiert de nouvelles perspectives par le double biais de la fiction romanesque et de l’observation précise. La transgression du réel, opérée par l’auteur, symbolise alors d’autres formes de subversion (politique, sociale, morale, sexuelle ou affective), observées ou effectuées par le héros, notamment par le biais de l’art et de l’écriture.AbstractJérémie ! Jérémie ! is one of the latest works of the contemporary French author Dominique Fernandez. This novel is about the journey of a young student to Haiti, his discovery of the country and the new feelings he will experience there. Depicting Haiti through the eyes of Fabrice, the hero of the book, the novel provides us with a description of the local geography and politics. By blending historical reflections on history, detailed descriptions and fictional adventures, the author succeeds in creating a truthful and meaningful fictional world, in which reality is endowed with new prospects through fiction and observation. By going beyond reality, the author also points out to other forms of subversion, whether political, social, moral, sexual or affective. The hero will be able to witness and experience such forms of subversion on the island, mainly through art and writing.

Architecture and memory in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Naomi Stead
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
The Way

Austerlitz was the German expatriate author W. G. Sebald’s last book before his untimely death in 2001. Greeted with great critical acclaim, the novel is a profound meditation on history, memory, and loss. Sebald’s larger attempt to represent and memorialise the lasting trauma of the Holocaust, in an oblique and understated rather than a literal way, led him to a new kind of literary expression described by Eric Homberger as ‘part hybrid novel, part memoir and part travelogue’. What is most interesting about Austerlitz, for the purposes of this article, is that it makes so much use of architecture. In this, it joins a tradition of literary works that treat architecture as a metaphor for human endeavour and artifice, social structures, and attempts to order and construct the world. But, there is more to the buildings in Austerlitz. The book offers insights into the larger meaning – often, but not always, melancholy – of architecture in culture and society, past and present. This is elucidated at a personal level, in the way that surroundings and spatial atmospheres can affect the emotional life of an individual, and also at a collective level, in the way that buildings bear witness to, and last beyond, the trials and duration of a single human life.

REFLEKSI FALSAFAH AJARAN HIDUP MASYARAKAT JAWA DALAM PROSA LIRIK PENGAKUAN PARIYEM KARYA LINUS SURYADI

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Ery Agus Kurnianto
Keyword(s):  
Social Structures ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Philosophy Of Life

Philosophy  of  life  came  up  due  to  the  existence  of  culture    that  believed  and  upheld  by people who own them. The Javanese philosophy existed in the culture that are believed by the  Javanese  community.  The  philosophy  of  Javanese  community  actualized  in  the characters  in  the  novel  Pengakuan  Pariyem.  The  character  in  the  novel Pengakuan Pariyem  is  one  of  the  symbols  of  people  who  still  uphold  the  existing  culture  in  their society,  that  is  Javanese. The  study  of  sociology  of  literature was  used  to  analyze  novel Pengakuan Pariyem.  Literature  is  a  direct  mirror  of  various  social  structures,  kindship, and  others.  Therefore,  it  is  the  task  of  sociology  of  literature  to  correlate  fictional characters  and  situations  created  by  the  author  of  the  historical  circumstances  of  its origins. The purpose of  this  study  is  to describe  the value of Javanese philosophy of  life contained in Unen-Unen in novel Pengakuan Pariyem written by Linus Suryadi. This study used  a  qualitative  design.  The  results  of  the  research  showed  that  there  are  three  basic principles  which  used  as  a  basis  of  Javanese  philosophy  found  in  novels  Pengakuan Pariyem.  These  three  principles  are  (1)  awareness  in  divinity,  (2)  awareness  in universality, and (3) the awareness of human civilization.Abstrak Falsafah hidup  lahir karena adanya kultur atau budaya yang diyakini dan dijunjung tinggi masyarakat  yang  memilikinya.  Falsafah  hidup  Jawa  lahir  dari  kultur  atau  budaya  yang diyakini oleh masyarakat Jawa. Falsafah hidup masyarakat Jawa teraktualisasi dalam figur tokoh-tokoh  dalam  novel  Pengakuan  Pariyem.  Tokoh-tokoh  dalam  novel Pengakuan Pariyem adalah salah satu simbol manusia yang masih menjunjung tinggi kultur yang ada dalam masyarakatnya,  yaitu  Jawa.  Kajian  sosiologi  sastra  digunakan  untuk menganalisis novel Pengakuan  Pariyem.  Sastra  merupakan  cermin  langsung  dari pelbagai  struktur sosial, hubungan kekeluargaan, dan  lain-lain. Oleh sebab  itu, di sini tugas sosiologi sastra menghubungkan  tokoh-tokoh  khayali  dan  situasi  ciptaan  pengarang  dengan  keadaan sejarah asal-usulnya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mendeskripsikan nilai falsafah hidup Jawa yang terdapat dalam unen-unen pada novel Pengakuan Pariyem karya Linus Suryadi. Penelitian  ini  menggunakan  rancangan  kualitatif.  Hasil  penelitian  adalah  ada  tiga  asas dasar  yang  dijadikan  landasan  dalam  falsafah  Jawa  yang  ditemukan dalam  novel Pengakuan  Pariyem.  Ketiga  asas  itu  adalah  (1) kesadaran  dalam  berketuhanan,  (2) kesadaran dalam berkesemestaan, dan (3) kesadaran dalam berkeberadaban manusia.

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