Ni signifiant ni absurde : à la recherche du sens du monde dans La Route des Flandres de Claude Simon

• Authors: Kotowska-Miziniak Joanna

Title variants

EN

Neither Meaningful nor Absurd: in Search of the Meaning of the World in Claude Simon’s La Route des Flandres

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

At the crossroads of philosophy, religion and literature arises the question of meaning. The feeling of absurdity of the world and the loss of the meaning of life, accompanied by a desperate attempt to (re)create it, are typical for people stigmatized by borderline experiences of collective traumas, such as war. As a combatant of the Second World War and a great admirer of Marcel Proust, Claude Simon undertakes a tireless search for lost meaning, which emerges discreetly behind the pessimism with which he describes the absurdity of the world. A close reading of his most famous novel, La Route des Flandres (1960), reveals to us some subtle indications about this quest for meaning, which becomes also a quest for identity.

Keywords

EN

meaning of life; absurd; identity; Second World War; Claude Simon; La Route des Flandres

• Publisher: Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Academic Journal of Modern Philology
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 303-310

Contributors

author

Kotowska-Miziniak Joanna

• Université de Wrocław

Identifiers

DOI

doi:10.34616/ajmp.2020.9