Il était une fois un arbre... À propos de A árvore das palavras [L'arbre à paroles] de Teolinda Gersão

The novel by Teolinda Gersão, a Portuguese writer from the second half of the 20th century, plays with ambiguous notions that can be associated with the term tree. Knowing that the tree that we see in the landscape and that we study in botany does not exhaust all the meanings inherent in the concept, the author takes pleasure in taking advantage of all the hidden senses and all the cultural symbols that may be present. The seemingly simple novel becomes more and more complex as the tree assum...

Voyage à l'étranger chez soi: L'approche de l'identité-altérité dans la poétique de Fouad Laroui à partir d'Une année chez les Français et L'Oued et le consul et autres nouvelles

This paper addresses the simultaneously lucid and critical perspective with which the Moroccan writer living in the Netherlands, Fouad Laroui, sees his native country from Europe. In fact, the short stories and the narrative fiction of this Francophone writer have the merit of casting a calm and comforting glance on our binary cultural differences, which they subsume by a narrative strategy that summons both humour and deep reflection, or still a practice of, and a call to tolerance. In doing...

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Euphonie, d'Hector Berlioz: de l'uphonie à l'utopie

In 1844, Hector Berlioz published a small novel about a future land ruled by musical principles, Euphonia. Remake in 1852, in a different critical context, the novel is the last part of another book, Les Soirées de l'Orchestre. "L'Euphonie" is the last meeting when the theatre was already close « for works » and before the Epilogue of the book. These "works" seems to have a collective intention, since the social order is also a musical harmony. Euphonia and eutopia impose themselves on life, ...