Le motif du vagabondage dans quelques nouvelles « noires » d’Émile Zola
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Date
2014
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset
Abstract
The paper shows the importance of the motif of vagabondage recurrent in three of Zola’s short stories: For a Night of Love, Jacques Damour and The Death of Olivier Becaille. Their characters’ aimless wandering through the coutryside, through France or the entire world either means perfect happiness, time-filling strategy, or consequence of one’s past or bad luck. It is always opposed to immobility of sleep or death.
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Zola, short story, vagabondage, mobility, happiness, bad luck
Citation
"Quêtes littéraires" 2014, nº 4, s. 38-46