M. Karagatsis, La Grande Chimère (1953) : les affres de l’acclimatation
In 1953, M. Karagatsis published the novel The Great Chimæra, which closes the trilogy entitled Acclimatizing to Apollo’s sun. The protagonist, Marina Baret, struggling with the despair of a suffocating provincial existence, unexpectedly emigrates aboard the ship Chimæra to join Yannis Reïzis, a Gre...
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| description | In 1953, M. Karagatsis published the novel The Great Chimæra, which closes the trilogy entitled Acclimatizing to Apollo’s sun. The protagonist, Marina Baret, struggling with the despair of a suffocating provincial existence, unexpectedly emigrates aboard the ship Chimæra to join Yannis Reïzis, a Greek shipowner calling at Rouen. It is in the confined space of the Cycladic island of Syros that the young woman imagines she will finally find a way out of her melancholy. This article shows that, in this novel, migration, in a constant intertextuality with literary antiquity and modernity, is tragically associated with perdition, boredom and death. Marina, in search of love, life and evasion, fails to free herself from a sterile and burdensome wandering, which pushes her out of the world through imagination and adultery, in search of a fantasized and obsolete ideal, until the final catastrophe. |
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