La mise en récit de la Grande Guerre : remarques sur l’instance narratrice dans Un long dimanche de fiançailles de Sébastien Japrisot

• Authors: Joanna Jakubowska-Cichoń

Title variants

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PUTTING THE GREAT WAR INTO THE NARRATIVE:SÉBASTIEN JAPRISOT’S A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

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This article is devoted to the study of Sébastien Japrisot’s novel Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) that belongs to the current of literature denouncing the military authorities’ abuses during the First World War. The article concentrates on the novel’s narrative devices, especially on the relations between the narrator and the protagonist’s discourse, with the intention to demonstrate that the narrator voluntarily renounces his enunciative authority, thus sharing the protagonists’ value system. In the context of the topical tendency to question the Great War’s events, the narrator’s egalitarian attitude seems eloquent, in that it legitimates the discourse that condemns the very notion of authority.

Keywords

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authority; the Great War; inquiry; narrative instance; Sébastien Japrisot

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Romanica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 61
• Pages: 99 - 108

Contributors

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Joanna Jakubowska-Cichoń

• Université de Wrocław