Quêtes littéraires, 2014, No 4: Sur les traces du vagabond
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- ItemDu vagabondage à la sainteté – la quête de soi dans Becket ou l’honneur de Dieu de Jean Anouilh(Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2014) Kucharuk, SylwiaAt first glance, the protagonist of the play has none of the characteristics of a vagabond. However, subjected to a more thorough analysis, he proves to be endowed with many features typical of a wanderer, such as alienation, unrest, loneliness, social isolation and individualism. In the text he is described as a man who is « in the search for himself, » his exile is, first and foremost, a metaphysical search for his own « self » and for the meaning of life. He is also a character undergoing a metamorphosis – from a lecher he becomes a saint. The shift seems to come as a consequence of being an exile from his own country. This exile, however, in its literal dimension, becomes too heavy a burden for him, and, be rid of the burden, he chooses to die a martyr. This article presents the evolution of the personality and the shift in the social standing of the character, as well as the reasons for, and consequence of, his exile.
- ItemLa Figure de l’enfant viator chez Le Clézio, un nouveau type de pícaro(Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2014) Presadă, DianaThe first short story in the volume Mondo and Other Stories serves as a model for the other stories in the collection in terms of the themes, the representation of the child’s portrait and the stylistic peculiarities of the text. More exactly, the story describes the world of “children seen as kings” (Brée, 1990: 100) where everything is dominated by goodness, purity, beauty and magic. As the reference to Sinbad the Sailor at the beginning of the book suggests, the story depicts a moving journey in pursuit of a dream. This is the journey of a child who, refusing the adult world from which he feels alienated, is in search of himself and the unknown. As an image of the viator child, can we consider Mondo a new type of vagabond? Why is he emblematic of the author’s fictional universe and of universal literature? By answering these questions, the purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the originality and uniqueness of Le Clézio’s writing.
- ItemMarginalité et errance dans l’œuvre de Laurent Gaudé : le vagabond comme figure de la rupture(Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2014) Boubaker, DoniaPartly a tramp and partly an outcast, the hobo as a character in Laurent Gaudé's imagination and fiction is a multi-faceted figure, a metaphor for modern world crisis. Resorting to a sort of primitive morality, he elects to break away from a universe of exclusion, alienating individuals to the point of stripping them off of their humanity, and he ultimately becomes a hobo. His wanderings become a form of resistance to repressive normality, and the Gaudean tramp evolves into a social rebel figure.