FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATION

The essay is a comparative analysis of the way in which salvation is presented into three novels dealing with shipwrecks and outcasts: Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954), Tournier’s Friday, or The Other Island (1967), and Coetzee’s Foe (1986). Through the comparative analysis of three novels of the...

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Main Author: Lucian Vasile Bâgiu
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Language:English
Published: "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia 2024-11-01
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description The essay is a comparative analysis of the way in which salvation is presented into three novels dealing with shipwrecks and outcasts: Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954), Tournier’s Friday, or The Other Island (1967), and Coetzee’s Foe (1986). Through the comparative analysis of three novels of the 20th century, the essay highlights how the shipwreck of the representatives of European civilization on an exotic, deserted and uninhabited island leads to a similar solution, of the impossibility of salvation in the framework of the same civilization. The difference in vision from the happy end feature of the Robinson myth established by Daniel Defoe is self-imposed and proves an acute crisis of modern man’s consciousness, but also an aesthetic awareness of the fact that, a few hundred years away from the establishment of the modern myth, European civilization can no longer feed on its own illusions.
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spelling doaj-art-babc82259d984ea0823425b42ba613282025-08-20T02:05:25Zeng"1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba IuliaIncursiuni în imaginar2501-21692601-51372024-11-0115224327010.29302/InImag.2024.15.2.9FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATIONLucian Vasile Bâgiu0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8588-8528“1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba IuliaThe essay is a comparative analysis of the way in which salvation is presented into three novels dealing with shipwrecks and outcasts: Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954), Tournier’s Friday, or The Other Island (1967), and Coetzee’s Foe (1986). Through the comparative analysis of three novels of the 20th century, the essay highlights how the shipwreck of the representatives of European civilization on an exotic, deserted and uninhabited island leads to a similar solution, of the impossibility of salvation in the framework of the same civilization. The difference in vision from the happy end feature of the Robinson myth established by Daniel Defoe is self-imposed and proves an acute crisis of modern man’s consciousness, but also an aesthetic awareness of the fact that, a few hundred years away from the establishment of the modern myth, European civilization can no longer feed on its own illusions.http://inimag.uab.ro/upload/23_450_09_bagiu_15_2_2024-241-268.pdfoutcastislandcivilizationsavagerysalvation
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FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATION
Incursiuni în imaginar
outcast
island
civilization
savagery
salvation
title FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATION
title_full FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATION
title_fullStr FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATION
title_full_unstemmed FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATION
title_short FAȚETE ALE UNOR NAUFRAGII: CIVILIZAȚIA SALVATOARE / FACETS OF SOME WRECKS: THE SAVING CIVILIZATION
title_sort fatete ale unor naufragii civilizatia salvatoare facets of some wrecks the saving civilization
topic outcast
island
civilization
savagery
salvation
url http://inimag.uab.ro/upload/23_450_09_bagiu_15_2_2024-241-268.pdf
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