2005, fre, Thesis edition: La nouvelle Babel : langage, identite et morale dans les oeuvres de Emil Cioran, Milan Kundera et Andrei Makine / Rey, Catherine,1956-; University of Western Australia.School of Humanities; University of Western Australia.European Languages and Studies Discipline Group

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  • 2005
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  • La nouvelle Babel : langage, identite et morale dans les oeuvres de Emil Cioran, Milan Kundera et Andrei Makine /​
Author
  • Rey, Catherine,1956-
  • University of Western Australia.School of Humanities
  • University of Western Australia.European Languages and Studies Discipline Group
Published
  • 2005
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  • thesis
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  • The subject of this thesis is an examination of the acquisition in language of a new country for three Eastern European writers exiled in France. For such writers, art and life become inseparable: just as the experience of geographical displacement liberates the writer so it liberates his language. This new language becomes a field of experimentation, in which the conflicts that precipitated exile are resolved. Departure necessitates the abandonment of the mother tongue: for Cioran, Romanian; for Kundera, Czech; for Makine, Russian. For each of these three writers, studied in this thesis, the adoption of French as the language of literary expression was a decisive act. Geographically and spiritually he and his text are redefined. Separated from familiar landmarks, each finds a new terrain in the language of the creative text, a place, a private space, in which to express the realities of his new self. On the one hand this new paradigm is the expression of a rejection of a past and a tradition; on the other hand it is essential in the process of coming to self-understanding. For Cioran, Kundera and Makine the French language provides a foil to their own ruptured, fragmented, traumatised or guilt-ridden native identities. In each case the adoption of French with its concomitant stereotypical qualities and values constitutes a dialectical process of coming to a clearer sense of self.
  • Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Australia, 2006
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  • fre
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  • oai:repository.uwa.edu.au:7025

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