Les tourments de l’absence dans Gazole de Bertrand Gervais

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dc.contributor.authorKapołka, Karolina
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-13T12:48:30Z
dc.date.available2022-06-13T12:48:30Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn his novel entitled Gazole (2001), Bertrand Gervais, a Quebec writer, takes up the issue of suicide and its psychological and social impact. The main character, Lancelot Tremblay, whose job is to write lyrics for a rock band Le Livre des Morts (Eng. The Book of the Dead), hangs himself in his apartment. His naked body with an erect penis is discovered by the other members of the band Gazole and Pyramide. Their reactions to this deadly act are, however, different. Submerging himself in mourning, Pyramide withdraws emotionally from his relationship with his girlfriend Gazole, who, deeply touched by her partner’s newly developed indifference to her, delves into an investigation into the causes of Lancelot’s suicide. Being increasingly fascinated by the figure of Lancelot, Gazole reconstructs a new picture of him. Pieces of memories conjured up by those who knew Lancelot, like incomplete pieces of a puzzle, make Gazole form a romantic image of his absence. The mysterious and tragic figure of the young poet who chose to extinguish himself fires the woman’s imagination, who fantasizes about a sentimental and erotic relationship with him. An emptiness created by the suicide forces the woman to ponder over the nature of death, an eternal absence. Obsessed with this imaginary presence of Lanelot, Gazole has to set herself free from its influence, which causes her to flirt with a razorblade in a bathtub. The foray into Lancelot’s suicide gives Gazole an insight into her own true identity. Gazole discovers her internal feminine strength and frees herself from the shackles of Lancelot’s mental and sexual hold.en
dc.identifier.citation"Quêtes littéraires" 2012, nº 2, s. 152-161pl
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/ql.4636
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/3192
dc.language.isofrpl
dc.publisherKatolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Wersetpl
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectQuebec literaturepl
dc.subjectsuicidepl
dc.subjectdeathpl
dc.subjectabsencepl
dc.subjectidentitypl
dc.titleLes tourments de l’absence dans Gazole de Bertrand Gervaisfr
dc.title.alternativeThe torments of absence in Bertrand Gervais’s Gazoleen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepl
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