D’une forêt à l’autre: quelques remarques à propos des discours de Stockholm de Claude Simon et de J.M.G. Le Clézio
This text analyses the Nobel lectures pronounced by Claude Simon (1985) and J.M.G Le Clézio (2008) when they were given the Literature Prize. Our aim is to inquire the way the writer positions himself vis-à-vis his surrounding world. This critical assessment is materialised through a deep reflexion...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises
2011-01-01
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| Series: | Carnets |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/5379 |
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| Summary: | This text analyses the Nobel lectures pronounced by Claude Simon (1985) and J.M.G Le Clézio (2008) when they were given the Literature Prize. Our aim is to inquire the way the writer positions himself vis-à-vis his surrounding world. This critical assessment is materialised through a deep reflexion on the novelistic genre. We will comment some topoï noticeable in both Nobel Lectures, such as the allusion to History (and, particularly, to war) as a source for writing, or the use of the metaphor of the forest to comment the novelistic approach of these two authors. In this study, which evokes some key-questions for understanding contemporary French literature, we intend to outline not only the relevance of Simon’s literary premises but also the renewal of the writer’s concerns as exposed by Le Clézio in his Nobel lecture. |
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| ISSN: | 1646-7698 |