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La mort à l’haïtienne et la parole rituelle Hadriana dans tous mes rêves de René Depestre

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Żurawska A.
Romanica Silesiana
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2014
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vol. 9
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The aim of the article is to explore the role of selected rituals in the novel Hadriana dans tous mes rêves by René Depestre. The narration is focused on the zombification of the eponymous character on her wedding day and the sudden disappearance of her tomb after the funeral ceremony. Both rituals not only illustrate the social system of Haiti, but also reflect the particular relation between the narrator living in exile (like the author of the book) and his native island personified by Hadriana. First, the novel is analyzed from the anthropological perspective; then, the metaphorical dimension of the rituals described in the book is stressed. Finally, the ritual, possessing some degree of inherent agency, is presented as a symbolic act of performative utterance. Key words: ritual, voodoo and Christian anthropology, marvelous realism (réalisme merveilleux), performative utterance
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L’image de la mort ou l’histoire d’une sensibilité. Charlotte de David Foenkinos

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Żurawska A.
Quêtes littéraires
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2015
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issue 5
213-221
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The aim of the article is to examine the figure of an artist in the novel Charlotte by David Foenkinos. With his text, he desires to pay homage to Charlotte Salomon, a Jewish painter murdered at age twenty-six in Auschwitz. The Salomon’s biography and works became famous thanks to the novel by Foenkinos. The great merit of his book is to make the painter recognizable to a wide public. The interpretation of the text in which central figure is a painter should include a question about the generic status of the novel, thus the reflection about the Künstlerroman, and about the status of the image in the text, the narrative processes used to make the text more plastic, the ekphrasis, etc. The problem seems interesting because Charlotte does not correspond with the traditional definition of the Künstlerroman. The narrator refers the reader to the extradégétique reality in order to make a connection between the reader and Charlotte’s painting; therefore, he focuses his story on the conception of the image and not on the image itself.
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Géographie conflictuelle d’une ville : Rue Saint-Urbain de Mordecai Richler et Côte-des-Nègres de Mauricio Segura

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Żurawska A.
TransCanadiana
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2013
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issue 6
143-156
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The aim of the article is to examine Rue Saint-Urbain (The Street) by Mordecai Richler and Côte-des-Nègres by Mauricio Segura. Despite numerous differences between the two writers (their origins, languages of their literary expression, time of their artistic activity, etc.), their works share certain characteristics. The narrators of both novels are similar to each other in their sensitivity to the multicultural situation of their quarters, which may be regarded as a source of conflicts and absurdities. The comparative analysis of the two novels, focusing particularly on the literary visions of Montreal presented in both texts, explores the relationships not only between Quebeckers and immigrants, but also between various ethnic groups within the Quebecois metropolis.
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L’errance de l’artiste dans La Montagne secrète de Gabrielle Roy

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Żurawska A.
Quêtes littéraires
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2014
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issue 4
103-110
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The aim of the article is to examine the figure of a vagabond and an artist in the novel The Hidden Mountain (La Montagne secrète) by Gabrielle Roy which, according to Antoine Boisclair, is the first Quebec novel completely devoted to painting. It presents the wandering of the artist who does not perceive his vagabondage as movement from one place to another, but regards it as the essence of both his existence and his creation. First, the analysis explores the problem of wandering as narrative basis, examining the tension between the external reality and the inner experience of the painter. Then, the aim of the artist’s journey, symbolically delineated by the Hidden Mountain, is analyzed. The final part of the article is devoted to the concept of art presented in the novel, with particular emphasis on the humanistic dimension of artistic creation.
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L’image postcoloniale de l’Amérique du Sud dans Saltimbanques, Kaléidoscope brisé et Le Magicien de Sergio Kokis

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Żurawska A.
Romanica Silesiana
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2011
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vol. 6
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This paper attempts to examine the postcolonial image of South America in the trilogy by Sergio Kokis, composed of Saltimbanques, Kaléidoscope brisé and Le Magicien. The three novels focus on adventures of the Circus Alberti which leaves Europe, ravaged by the Second World War, in order to find a better life in South America. A travelling company of performers covers the route of the first colonizers. The journey of the circus artists allows Kokis to unmask political and social consequences of the colonization of South America, such as slavery in the plantations of yerba maté, the poverty of indigenous populations, the authoritarian power of generalissimos, the policy of terror and tortures, fratricidal conflicts, etc. The aim of the article is also to investigate a very complicated relationship between the colonizers and the colonized presented in the three novels. Key words: Journey, cultural imperialism, colonizer/colonized relationship.
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L’Atlantide ou la quête de l’absence. D’un pays sans amour de Gilles Rozier

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Żurawska A.
Romanica Silesiana
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2015
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vol. 10
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The novel D’un pays sans amour (2011) by Gilles Rozier features two narrators who try to recapture the past and to reconstruct with letters the Yiddishland annihilated after World War II. This vanished state, with its cultural capital situated in Warsaw, is called Atlantis in the novel and presented as a paradise in the yiddish literature and language. The choice of this metaphor encourages the reflection on the ambivalence between reality and fiction, as well as on the oppositions between presence and absence or memory and oblivion. What is more, this metaphor refers to the categories of time and space. The aim of this article is to examine the function of the Atlantis metaphor on which the novel is based and to analyze the mechanisms of narrative as memorial (on the basis of Paul Ricœur’s concept) which allow the narrator to rebuild the annihilated world of the mythical island and to bring the non‑existent back into existence. Key words: Atlantis, mythical island, the yiddish literature and language, presence / absence, memory / oblivion, time and space
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