Quêtes littéraires, 2014, No 4: Sur les traces du vagabond
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- 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.
- ItemD’une hétérotopie à l’autre où le vagabondage au féminin (Jean Echenoz, Un an)(Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2014) Jişa, SimonaJean Echenoz’s text presents Victoria’s story, who runs away from Paris, believing that she has killed her lover. Her straying (that embraces the form of a relative deterritorialization in a Deleuzian sense) lasts one year, and it is built up geographically upon a descent (more or less symbolical) to the South of France and, after that, she comes back to Paris and encloses the spatial and textual curl. From a spatial point of view, she turns into a heterotopia (Foucault) every place where she is located, a fact that reflects her incapability of constituting a personal, intimate space. The railway stations, the trains, the hotels, the improvised houses of those with no fixed abode are turning, according to Marc Augé’s terminology, into a « non-lieux » that excludes human being. Her vagrancy is characterized through a continuous flight from police and people, and through a continuous decrease of her standard of living and dignity. It’s not about a quest of oneself, but about a loss of oneself. Urged by a strong feeling of culpability, her vagrancy is a self-punishment that comes to an end when the concerns of her problems disappear, and she finds out that her lover is alive.
- ItemEn quête de soi, enquête sur soi. Représentations du vagabond dans Fuir (1988) de Linda Lê(Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2014) Assier, JulieIn Fuir, Linda Lê features two characters – a vagrant nicknamed “Le Japonais” and the narrator, exiled to an unnamed Asian country – that seem to be re-cognized for what they are : lonely beings in search of an alter ego. Their improbable than astonishing meeting marks the beginning of a wandering both geographical and mental; the reader follows through the streets, alleys, driveways, sidepaths, pedestrian streets of indeterminate city symbolizing the maze of life whose meaning is to be decoded. The figure of the vagabond reflects the obsessions and concerns of the writer on his anguish of living. It also crystallizes its founding and formative reading, including the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran and the Swedish writer Stig Dagerman who greatly influenced in the writing and the construction of her novel. Fuir is both a question about the absurdity of life and a metaphor for the condition of the exiled writer.
- ItemLa légende du Juif errant dans La Mémoire d’Abraham de Marek Halter(Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset, 2014) Kamiński, PawełIn the very beginning of the 17th century appears a famous legend of the Wandering Jew named Ahasverus, who is characterised by some immutable features. Since then, the story has inspired various artists and despite the passage of time it keeps on arousing a great interest among both writers and readers. The main goal of the present study is to compare the collective protagonist from The Book of Abraham, a twentieth century novel by Marek Halter, to the legendary figure. Therefore, we present a vast and accurate picture of the interactions between the Jewish protagonists from Halter’s novel to the features typical of Ahasuerus.
- 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.