Allah n’est pas obligé d’A. Kourouma: un palimpseste ivoirien

• Authors: Malinovská Zuzana

Title variants

EN

KOUROUMA’S ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED, A PALIMPSEST FROM THE IVORY COAST

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The present study shows that the novel Allah Is Not Obliged (2000) by Ahmadou Kourouma from the Ivory Coast, is an up-dated “Africanized“ transposition of Journey to the End of the Night (1932), L-F. Céline’s key 20th century French novel despite the lapse of time and different contexts, in which both works originated. After a brief introduction of contexts and Kourouma’s problem of ambivalent relationship with the French language, it focuses on the portrayal of affinity between hypotext and hypertext. The study emphasizes a similar concept of the character identical with the narrator “imposing“ a novel’s construction, a similar vision of being in the world and especially a similar need to come up with an original linguistic expression of the topic, which hides the issues of language and narration beneath the surface.

Keywords

FR

hypertexte; hypotext; roman français; roman francophone; transpostition actualisée

EN

hypertext; hypotext; French novel; world novel in French; up-dated transposition

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature
• Pages: 149-156

Contributors

author

Malinovská Zuzana

• Institut d’Etudes romanes, Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Prešov