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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Main Author: Felipe Cammaert
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Language:English
Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2011-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/5379
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description 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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D’une forêt à l’autre: quelques remarques à propos des discours de Stockholm de Claude Simon et de J.M.G. Le Clézio
Carnets
writing
Claude Simon
J.M.G. Le Clézio
Nobel Prize
History
novel’s theory
title D’une forêt à l’autre: quelques remarques à propos des discours de Stockholm de Claude Simon et de J.M.G. Le Clézio
title_full D’une forêt à l’autre: quelques remarques à propos des discours de Stockholm de Claude Simon et de J.M.G. Le Clézio
title_fullStr D’une forêt à l’autre: quelques remarques à propos des discours de Stockholm de Claude Simon et de J.M.G. Le Clézio
title_full_unstemmed D’une forêt à l’autre: quelques remarques à propos des discours de Stockholm de Claude Simon et de J.M.G. Le Clézio
title_short D’une forêt à l’autre: quelques remarques à propos des discours de Stockholm de Claude Simon et de J.M.G. Le Clézio
title_sort d une foret a l autre quelques remarques a propos des discours de stockholm de claude simon et de j m g le clezio
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Claude Simon
J.M.G. Le Clézio
Nobel Prize
History
novel’s theory
url https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/5379
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