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Se perdre afin de se retrouver : l'importance du passage entre l’absence et la présence dans Œdipe sur la route de Henry Bauchau

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Ślusarska A.

Quêtes littéraires

2012

issue 2

116-123

Retracing in his novel the labyrinthine journey that leads Oedipus from the place of his abomination (Thebes) to the city of his future glory (Colonus), Henry Bauchau fills the emptiness between Sophocles’s Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus. Bauchau’s hero, a powerful king, loses everything and stabs his eyes out when the cruel truth about his real identity is revealed. Blind, homeless, devoid of meaning of life, Oedipus leaves on a journey to pass away anywhere. However, his way to death turns out to be, thanks to benevolent presence of others and art’s liberating power, the road to personal elucidation. The story of Bauchau’s Oedipus, who finally recognizes himself as a truly human, is based therefore on the passage between absence and presence, between darkness and lucidity, on the union of contradictions which symbolize the complexity of human nature. This paper attempts to analyse different representations of absence in Bauchau’s novel. Afterwards, the article focuses on the ways which facilitate Oedipus’s road leading from depersonalization to rediscovery of his own identity.

Quand l’Histoire se fond dans un paysage remémoré : l’écriture de la mémoire et de l’oubli dans Sarah, feuille morte de Jean-Claude Pirotte

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Ślusarska A.

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia

2016

vol. 43

issue 4

103-112

The purpose of this article is to analyse the primordial role of the memory – and his counterpart, the forgetting – in the construction of identity landscape by Belgian writer Jean-Claude Pirotte. Focusing on the memory’s landscapes in Pirotte’s novel, Sarah, feuille morte, we show in what ways the personal and collective memory (Belgian as well as Lotharingian) combine and what are the terms that allow a singular recollection to join or to expand the shared memory.

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Se perdre afin de se retrouver : l'importance du passage entre l’absence et la présence dans Œdipe sur la route de Henry Bauchau

Quand l’Histoire se fond dans un paysage remémoré : l’écriture de la mémoire et de l’oubli dans Sarah, feuille morte de Jean-Claude Pirotte