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| adam_text | Volume 11
Coordinateurs
Ovidiu Mircean
& Efstratia Oktapoda-Lu
Voyages dans le Levant et ailleurs
Sommaire
Ovidiu Mircean
Homo Errans.
Passaggi, Errarne, Nomadi
Homo errans
Corin Braga
Ştefan
Borbély
Gisèle
Vanhese
Ruxandra
Cesereami
Cristina
Felea
Carmen
Bujdei
Ovidiu Mircean
66
Andrada
Fătu-Tutoveanu
9
Utopie, récit de voyage et voyage extraordinaire
18 Hermann Hesse
s
Glass Bead Game
23
Soms
le signe d Ulysse. L errance dans l écriture chez
Benjamin
Fondane et
chez Paul
Celan
34
Homo Viator in
Transition. Travelling
through and-with
Céline, Nabokov, Kerouak
40
Kerouac and America on
the Road to Postmodernism
52
Narratives of LiquidModernity
:
Translation,
Migraña
and
Nomadism in Salman Rushdie s Novels
Errarne pirandelliane nella narrativa di Paul
Auster.
Appunti
per una speculazione
72
The Space and the Revelatory Voyage in the Chilean Exile
Literatuře.
Impossible Geographies: Inner and Outer Space
Voyages
dans (es
Balkans
Ovidiu Ivancu
81
From Balkan to Cultural Balkanism
Mircea Muthu
88
Venice, between Orient
et
Occident
Anna Caiozzo
90
Quelques remarques sur
Constantinople
réelle et imaginaire
dans la relation de voyage de
Ruiz
González
de Clax ijo
Ovidiu Pecican
96
Voyages. A
Propaedeutics.
Types
of Travels in the Romanian Middle Ages
Emilia Ivancu
101
Travelling with Gulliver in the Balkans and Ruritania
Sanda Cordoş
115
La Romania
nomade
nella prosa
postcomunista
Le Levant francophone
Efstratia
Oktapoda-Lu
123
Les littératures francophones de l Est méditerranéen
Antoine Sassine
130
L Orient méditerranéen dans la poésie de Nadine Ltaif
Elena Marchese
143
Ecrire en exil, écrire l exil
Bernadette
Ginestet-Levine
Jean-Pierre
Castellani
Ami Etensel
Ildem
Christiane
Chaulet Achour
Cristina
Boidaid-Boisson
Rosalia Bivona
Olympia G.
Antoniadou
Louisa
Christodoulidou
Yiarmis E.
Ioannou
Ezza Agha
Malak
153
Les tribulations de l identité
:
Le nom dit et le non-dit dans
«
Les marches de sable
»
d Andrée Cheddid
159
Amin
Maaloufà la recherche de ses origines
165
Exil et identité dans l œuvre de Kenizé Mourad
175
De l Orient immémorial au Proche-Orient
d
aujourd
hui
:
Myriam Antaki, romancière
188
Les romans d Andrée Chedid: Une réécriture du tragique?
203
Beyrouth
n
est pas loin. Espaces urbains palpables et
impalpables dans
«
Sous le ciel d Occident
»
de Ghassan Fawaz
217
Mondialisation et identité
:
Le cas de Vassilis Alexakis
236 «
L espace vécu
».
Le cas de Blanche Molfessis
249
La francophonie à Chypre et sa contribution à la littérature
255
Ecrits féminins, écrits masculins. L activité littéraire féminine
d
expression française au Liban. Le témoignage d une
écrivaine
259
Compte-rendus
303
Abstracts
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зоз
2
Abstracts
Corín
Braga
Babes-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Utopia,
travel
narrative
and extraordinary voyage
The text explores the relationship between the travel literature (as a non-fiction
genre)
ала
the extraordinary voyages (as a fiction genre), on the one hand, and Utopian
literature, on the other. Using various literary samples and also previous theoretical
commentaries on utopianism, it proves that
utopias
are symbiotically merged with voyage
narrative. This cohabitation refers not only to the plot necessity of introducing Utopian
descriptions through a geographical travel to far away places, but also to the presence of the
main character and traveler, who is also a story-teller and
a raisonneur
of the Utopian
society.
Keywords: Utopia, travel literature, extraordinary voyages, science-fiction.
Ştefan
Borbély
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Hermann Hesse s Glass Bead Game
Analysing the purely male spiritual enclave depicted in Hermann Hesse s novel The
Glass Bead Game4, the author traces the possible origins of this game to Leibniz s esoteric
texts, in which the German philosopher imagined knowledge as the skill of detecting abstract
and subtle correspondences between the different sciences and the
divme
plenitude of the
cosmos, based on the art of a generalised calculus, or mathematics, which he called
Characteristica
Universalis. In
Hesse s independent school system of
Castalia,
the glass bead
game is practised by its participants as a universal science
(mathesis unh ersalis)
of elaborated
European and Oriental cultural symbols and analogies, governed by the pure and abstract
equations of mathematics and music. Since Hesse s
Castalia
functions as a Utopian, exclusively
intellectual province, its vulnerability towards the everyday history and politics of the
surrounding nations brings it inevitably to the bring of decline and future destruction. Hermann
Hesse s protagonist, (lie skilled Josef
Knecht
reaches the highest rank of Master of the Game
(magister
ludi),
and then quits his office in an attempt to escape from collective mystification
and inconsistency.
Keywords: Hermann Hesse, Swiss German literature, literature and decadence,
utopia.
1^304
JR.,
Gisèle
Vanhese
^ЩІШ^Ш
University of Calabria Italy
Under the sign of Ulysses
Wandering through the Text in Benjamin Fondane s and Paul Celan s Writings
This work studies the
intertextual
traces of Ullysean wandering in the poetry of
Benjamin
Fondane
and Paul
Celan.
We demonstrate that Benjamin
Fondane
reprises from the
archetypal core of the Odyssey two characteristics of the persona: the centrifugal
élan
of the
journey out and the centripetal movement towards the intimacy of the hearth. He integrates
these into his own personal myth inscribed with motifs from the Titanic, considered as the
vessel of the dead, and of the sea crossing assimilated with the journey to the beyond: a
personal myth that issues forth in a Ulyssean aesthetic emphasizing the snares and perils of the
seduction of the siren. In Paul
Celan
the myth of Ulysses centers on deadly suicidal waters and
on the memory of Ithaca assimilated with that of his lost Romania. He has also transposed to a
metaphysical plane the mytheme of Nobody from the Homeric narrative in the collection,
Die Niemcmdsrose. We demonstrate that, within this perspective, the Meridian coincides with
the Ulyssean periplum and that the unknown addressee of the poem, tossed like a bottle into the
sea, becomes paradoxically the nova terra . The poem, as an experience of the abyss, thus
reveals itself, both with
Celan
and
Fondane,
as a final mutation of the perilous navigation of the
mythic hero.
Keywords: Benjamin
Fondane,
Paul
Celan,
nomadism, poetry, sea, quest, myth.
Ruxandra Cesereanu
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Homo Iffatorin Transition
Travelling through and with
Céline,
Habokov,
Kerouàk
The characters in the three novels (Voyage
au bout de la nuit, Lolita
and On the
Road) analysed in this essay willingly put themselves in the position of
a picaro.
This
allows them to taste the world, but also to isolate themselves preventively from it. They
adopt
a raisonneur
strategy, as they discover that time can be more easily controlled
through narrativity. Some of the characters develop different theories related to temporality
in order to justify their condition of frenetic wanderers. Throughout their journeys, their
greatest acts of defiance are against Time: their straggle is to find the way in which
tíme
can be manipulated so that they might sublimate their despair and solitude.
Keywords: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouak, initiation
voyage, self-discovery.
Cristina
Felea
Л?
305
Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ы^щ^
Kerouac
and America on the Road to Postmodernism
This study introduces Jack
Kerouac as
an author who intuited aspects of the
postmodern and developed fictional strategies and projects that both express and
engage our contemporary moment (Hunt,
xxvi)
and anticipated formal, artistic and
cultural phenomena that would be theorized later in postmodernist thought. On the
Road, his most popular work is presented in its quality of transitional work from The
Town and the City, a first published traditional work, to experimental novels such as
Visions of Cody.
Keywords: American literature, Beat Generation, Jack
Kerouac:
On the Road,
Postmodernism.
Carmen Bujdei
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Narratives of Liquid Modernity1:
Translation, Migrancy and Nomadism in Salman Rushdie s Novels
This paper looks at translation, migrancy and nomadism as strategies of self-
definition and self-location in several of Salman Rushdie s works. In contrast with the
alleged solidity of the myths legitimating the birth of imaginary homelands, novels like
Midnight s Children
(1981)
and Shame
(1983)
promote the notion that countries need to be
fluidly projected into existence. In his more recent narratives,
suchas
The Ground Beneath
Her Feet
(1999),
Fury
(2001)
and Shalimar the Clown
(2005),
Rushdie seems to confirm,
as well as amend to some extent,
Zygmunt
Bauman s diagnosis of the progressive
liquefaction of the age of modernity, whereby solid, rigid, traditional societal and power
structures are being supplanted, in this
post-panopticaľ
stage, by more fluid and flexible,
extra-territorial figurations.
Keywords: Salman Rushdie, translation, migrancy, nomadism, liquid modernity .
Ovidiu Mircean
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Pirandello s Patterns of
Errance
in Paul Auster s Fiction
An introduction to a Speculative Theory
The study is meant to propose a comparative approach between
Luigi
Pirandello s
characters
(Mattia
Pascal, the six characters searching for an author) and the postmodern
dispersive interiority enacted in Paul Auster s narrative. The arguments take into account
both the thematic coincidences, (the existence as a perpetual metamorphosis of the surface,
the inner world as simulacrum) and the stylistic teclmiques that aim to create a continuum
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....
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Щіт,
between the world of the reader and the different levels of the textual
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reality (metalepsis,
trompe
ľoeil).
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Keywords: Paul
Auster,
Luigi
Pirandello, postmodern identity , simu¬
lacra,
trompe
І оеіГ .
Andrada
Fătu-Tutoveanu
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The Space and the Revelatory Voyage in the Chilean Exile Literature
Impossible Geographies: Inner and Outer Space
The voyage, main concept at an implicit level in the Chilean exile literature (the
generation of Isabel
Allende,
Luis Sepulveda, Antonio
Skármeta
and others) expresses in a
symbolical form the constant need of the individual to recuperate through the artistic act his
native space and the area of his identity. This voyage through mental spaces inscribes new
maps, on which the space is fragmented in islands whose names are given by nostalgia,
memory and by an act of re-creation. This literature tries to rebuild vertically and
horizontally the geography of a country as it continues to exist only in the memory, an
invented country, as Isabel
Allende
calls it, which persists beyond the authentic space,
curved into an act of serf-discovery and serf-construction. As reality (initially forbidden)
cannot sustain itself (when the contact is reestablished) against nostalgia, because it has
brutally lost its innocence, the only possible native country resides in the language, a
privileged space where the dynamic act of combining memory an invention takes place by
drawing the new lines of a vital space. Out of the magic, protecting, circle, projected in a
cruel no-man s-land, the individual has to assume an inner re-building in order to find new
roots in this mental, invented country, trough a revelatory voyage to a necessary but
impossible geography.
Keywords: Chilean literature, Isabel
Allende, Luis
Sepulveda, Antonio
Skármeta,
exile, identity.
Ovidiu Ivancu
1
Decembrie
1918
University, Alba-Iulia, Romania
From Balkanto Cultural Balkanism
There are few terms to have met, as Balkanism did, a greater political
contamination, a greater voiding of the basic meaning and a greater acquiring of altered
meanings. These altered meanings are accounted for by the fact that Balkanism is too often
thought of from the outside, from a distance cardinally expressed in the terms of two forms
of culture: East vs. West. However, beyond its pejorative valences (rather invented than
real), Balkanism subsumes a world not easy to frame. The most common question is
whether this notion is not artificial, whether it does not cover a distinct reality that requires
a specific defimtion. Here are enough reasons to answer affirmatively, as well as there are
reasons to make us believe that Balkanism has already overcome the
ЈШ
geographical borders of the Balkans, being exported outside its native
Џ
land.
ч
Keywords: Balkanism, crisis, territoriality, nostalgia centre vs. periphery
picaresque, inconsistency, homo dupplex.
Mircea Muthu
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Venice, between the Orient
et
the Occident
The article analyses the unique cultural characteristics of Venice as the meeting-
point between Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy in the Byzantine Empire of the
Middle Ages.
Keywords: The Balkans, Venice, Orient, Occident, Byzantium.
AnnaCaiozzo
Sorbonne
University, Paris
7,
France
Some Remarks on the Real
/
Fictitious Constantinople
in the Travel Narrative of Ruiz
González
de
Clavfyo
At the beginning of the 15th century, the embassy sent by the Castillian
Bűng
to
Timur Leng,
leaded by Ruiz
González de Clavijo
reached Constantinople on October
1403,
i.e.
fifty years before the fall of the city by the Ottoman Turks. The Spanish ambassadors
stayed there three weeks and visited the famous city, its beautiful public monuments, its
religious edifices (churches and monasteries). Clavijo s testimony is
vety
interesting to
study the Constantinople s imaginary in the western people s minds. Clavijo was seduced
by this peaceful city, the architectural beauty of the churches and especially by the frescoes
and the mosaic pictures. He also described the numerous relics, the miraculous artefacts and
some monuments from late antiquity. The most interesting for us is to discover in Clavijo s
vision the Byzantine people supernatural creeds and their innocent and magic approaches of
the Christian faith.
Keywords: Ruiz
González
de
Clavijo, Constantinople, magic, marvels, dragons,
relics.
Ovidiu Pecican
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Voyages. A Propaedeutics. Types of Travels in the Romanian Middle
Ases
The paper focuses on the perception of space in the medieval Romanian culture.
The orientation and the role attributed to the geographical axes are a sample of the
Orthodox, namely, Eastern-European vision of the world in the Middle
Ages. Veru cality is seen more as an invitation to a metaphysical ascension,
while
horizontálny
is reserved to the terrestrial life. Using such abstract
coordinates, medieval Romanians organized their travels alternating the rhythms of
movement and rest.
Keywords: Travel literature, historical anthropology, Romanian principalities,
Middle Ages, horizontal and vertical dimensions of space, movement, rest.
Emilia Ivancu
1
Decembrie
1918
University, Alba-Iulia, Romania
Travelling with Gulliver in the Balkans and Ruritania
In the light of A. Toynbee s view of the relation between Western Europe and
Eastern Europe, the present article aims a double journey together with Gulliver (here
Gulliver being an archetype of the British colonising thinking and mentality): first, the
journey made by some British travellers in the Romanian Principalities in the
18*
century
and secondly, the journey through the text. At the same time, we shall try to reshape the
real geography of the Romanian lands and its people through the imaginary geography of
the travellers texts.
Keywords: the Balkans, the Romanian Principalities, imaginary geography,
journey, British imperialism, the Other, stereotype images.
Sanda Cordoş
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Nomad Romania in Post-communist Romanian Novels
This work focuses on the phenomena of exile and emigration as reflected in
Romanian literature after
1990.
It explores two directions: the fiction literature that presents
the Romanian emigration in Post-communism, most often seen as an escape from the
doomed homeland , and the non-fiction genre of memoirs written by Romanian writers
that had left Romania before the fall of Communism. In these memoirs the return to the
natal country appears as a last voyage , a death voyage, to a bizarre, tormented and futile
world. Adrian Otoiu, Fiorina ffis,
Petra Babru, Dumitra Tepeneag
are authors used as
samples for the first series of texts, Norman
Manea, Gabriela
Melinescu,
Matei Calinescu,
Sanda
Golopentia,
Constantin Eretescu,
for the second.
Keywords: Romania, Post-communism, exile, emigration, loneliness, anguish.
Efstratia Oktapoda-Lu
Sorbonne
University, Paris IV, France
Francophone Literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
The article makes a survey of the Francophone writers from the countries of the
Levant and Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Keywords: Francophone literatures, Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt,
Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Israel.
Antoine
Scissine
Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada
The Mediterranean Orient in
Nadine Ltaîf s
poetry
The imaginary world of Lebanese Canadian exiled poet
Nadine Ltaif
is rooted in
the context of middle-eastern geography and mythology. Any attempt at understanding her
poetic experience must be anchored in Mediterranean symbolism. This article explores the
theme of exile in the poetry of this poet and identifies four essential mythological figures:
Ishtar, Phoenix,
Agar
and Hecate. Ltaif invokes these symbols and reconstruct their
metaphoric meanings in order to seek a metaphysical remedy for her anguish. The analysis
of these Mediterranean symbols reveals a metaphysical process or a quest which begins
with the exploration of the anguish of uprootedness and exile, reaches an emotional
catharsis that desperately searches for a emotional refuge and finally leads to the emergence
of a feeling of liberation and plenitude.
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Nadine
Ltaif, exile, Ishtar,
Phoenix,
Agar,
Hecate.
Elena
Marchese
Ottawa University, Canada
Writing in Exile, Writing about the Exile
In this article, I intend to analyze how it is said and lived the exile in the novels
of
Abla
Farhoud,
Le bonheur a
la queue
glissante
(1998)
[Happiness has the slipping tail]
which gained the France-Quebec price in
1999,
et Splendide
Solitude
(2001)
[Splendid
loneliness].
Abla
Farhoud, an author of Lebanese origin from Quebec, lived the uprooting
in her own youth when she left Lebanon, with her family, to settle in Quebec. In her
novels, where the personal experience is often combined with the fiction, the female
protagonists must face the condition of the exile, they must learn how to be reinvented in
order to create a new identity and to find again their love for life. Although the exile is
represented in a different way in the two novels, one can however affirm that the
protagonists live the exile not only as immigrant, but also as women who remain still
excluded from certain social functions. In
Le bonheur a la
queue
glissante,
the protagonist, Dounia, lives a triple exile. Initially, she is
exiled to have left her native land. Then, she is also exiled on the social
standing because, as a woman, and especially an immigrant woman, she seems to be able
to fulfill herself only like a mother and a wife, within her family. Finally, the linguistic
exile deprives Dounia of her word, and consequently, she does not have the possibility of
being affirmed. In
Splendide
Solitude, the protagonist is a woman who, after a life
devoted to her family, finds herself alone and has to think about her life. Her loneliness
thus becomes a metaphor of her alienation, of seclusion not only from the others but also
from herself. The exile seems to be a difficult condition to support especially when the
women are confronted with it. However, it is thanks to their sensibility that they can find
in themselves the impulse to survive, to live.
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Abla
Farhoud, exile, the social status of women.
Bernadette
Ginestet-Levine
Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
The Quest for Identify:
Saying and Unsaying the Names in
Andrée
Cheddid s Novel
Les
marches
de sable
The desert is an essential element of the Egyptian identity. It has been a referential
symbol since antiquity. It is the frame chosen by
Andrée
Chedid, a writer of Lebano-
Egyptian descent, for her novel
Les
Marches
de sable,
The desert is an ever-changing space
where one must re-invent oneself in order to survive. The three female characters, Cyre,
Marie, and Athanasia, set out for the desert on an identity quest. After a long period of
gestation in union with the cosmic emptiness of the desert, they give birth to their names,
that is, to themselves.
Keywords: Egyptian literature,
Andrée
Chedid, the desert, the quest for identity,
self-engendering.
Jean-Pierre
Castellani
François
Rabelais University, Tours, France
Amin Maalouf
:
The search for the Origins
In his latest book
Origines (Grasset,
2004),
Amin
Maalouf delves into his personal
and familial history, developing a veritable quest for his ancestors that becomes an
individual and collective memory of Lebanon. In this quest he comes to grips with the
autobiographical as well as the mythical. By returning to his origins the author leads us
back to our own beginnings in a complex dialectics between East and West. The analysis is
based on the theory of autobiography and an attempt to understand the singularity of the
proposed pact between author and reader.
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Amin
Maalouf, the quest for the ancestors, the
reading pact.
Arzu
Eternel
Udem
^Ц
Ъ1 ^
Hacettepe
University,
Ankara, Turquie
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Exile and Identity in
Kenízé Mouraďs
Work
During long years
Kenizé
Mourad worked as a journalist at the
Nouvel
Observateur.
In
1987,
she became worldwide famous with her first novel entitled Regards
from the Dead Princess. This is the story of Princess
Selma,
granddaughter of the Ottoman
Sultan Mourad V. She died in exile in Paris. In fact Princess
Selma
is
Kenizé
Mourad s
own mother. In her second novel The Garden ofBadalpur, she writes her own story, her
childhood in Paris and her discovery of India and her father, the former Rajah ofBadalpur.
With her third book Our Sacred Land,
Kenizé
Mourad returns as a journalist and listens to
the voice of ordinary people from Israel and Palestine. She tries not to judge but to
understand the two parts. One can detach three themes dominating these books: exile,
identity and sense of belonging. The exile of the Ottoman family and the exile of the
Palestinian
people. The identity quest of Zahr (The Garden of Badalpur) and Kenize
Mourad herself. The sense of belonging of two communities to the sacred land .
Keywords: Turkish literature,
Kenizé
Mourad, exile, identity, sense of belonging.
Christiane Chaulet
Achour
Cergy-Pontoise University, France
From Ancient Orient to Contemporary Near East: Myriam Antaki s Novels
In this study, we propose an approach to the works of Myriam Antaki, a Syrian
author who writes in French. We focus on how the third novel,
Les versets du
pardon,
echoes the first one,
La Bien-aimée,
published fourteen years earlier. The latter inaugurates
the evocation of the immemorial Orient which continues in the second and the fourth
novels
-
while the third novel introduces the reader to the cruel present of today s Palestine
and Israel. Even though the style remains similar, a much different use of the two narrative
poles, war and love, produces a unique effect. One can only wish to analyze such an art of
telling stories of a Byzantine princess as well as a Palestinian terrorist.
Keywords: Syrian literature, Myriam Antaki, war, love.
Cristina Boidard-Boisson
Cádiz
University, Spain
Andrée
Chedid s Novels: Rewriting Tragedy?
The aim of this work is to analyze the paper of tragedy and the tragic in the novels
by
Andrée
Chedid. In her novels, Chedid gives a great importance to tragical events which
overwhelm man s power, such as fate, history, violence, or many other elements which give
a tragic color to the narrative. She takes her inspiration after real events, mainly contem¬
porary ones Her work contains many elements that belong specifically to the tragical genre
i-^lfe I-^
^
sne uses
writing strategies which enhance even more the tragic
atmosphere.
Keywords: Egyptian literature,
Andrée
Chedid, tragedy, fate, history,
violence.
Rosalia Bivona
Palermo University, Italy
Beirut is Near. Visible and Invisible Urban Spaces
in
Ghassan
Fawaz s Under the Western Sun
Under the Western sun is a long monologue where the Lebanese war is becoming a
powerful narrative trigger, revealing the causes and phantasms besieging the two
characters: Unlel and Mehmed. It is not really the story of a conflict. It is not either another
novel about Beirut, but only pieces of the Lebanese mosaic breaking out like an exploding
shell. Untel and Mehmed are two Lebanese leftist students, living in Paris at the
Cité
Internationale, for their Doctorate diplomas. On one side they express their feelings about
exile, being torn apart or losing some of their illusions and on the other side enjoying
thoroughly the dimensions and variations (freedom) of Parisian student life. This chaotic
and exhilarating novel is far from being only a tale (story) and even further of the art of
building up a plot or creating new characters, because it rather builds up spaces which
become the organizers of the scheme. Paris on one side, Beirut on the oiher side, just as a
pattern on a rag. This dualism can be noticed under several aspects:
eros
and pathos,
labyrinth and lay out, distance and closeness, order and disorder, love and hate, war and
peace, lucidity and madness, present and flash back .
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Ghassan
Fawaz, exile, Paris, Beirut,
eros,
pathos.
Olympia G.
Antóniádon
Aristotle University, Thessalonica, Greece
Globalisation and Identity: Vassilis Alexakis s Case
This article seeks to demonstrate how Alexakis, a Greek-French-speaking author,
through his writing, produced in a set claimed to be multicultural, escapes the risk to
undermine his
identit}
self-determination, how he is ensured on his own originality through
this mosaic and, how he finally acquires a universal dimension. At first sight, the concepts
of identity and universalization seem radically opposite: the personal versus the universal
one. The case of Alexakis, on the contrary, testifies how the identity, by its nature into full
becoming, can go through several stages and acquire, finally, universal dimensions,
although often anchored in the local. Typical representative of all emigrants, with the
constant reference to his own situation of emigrant, all his work is a game of identity
unfolding, aiming at deciding which culture (that of birth, the Greek one, or that of
adoption, the French one) he belongs to, This bi-directional course takes various forms
being expressed through a specific set of themes, common to the entire
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human community (death, love, language, exile). The solution to this
ЩщгйЩї
dilemma is given through an African minor language, the
sango,
which
-^śsafeŁif
shows him the way to dodge the French-Greek bi-polarity. Thanks to this dialect, his
writing is set up to a planetary standard, since it is a writing which implies the feeling of
belonging to the same interdependent community, of a mutual sharing of values across
nationalities, borders and cultures, towards the respect of the others, including its
differences, in favor of the cultural diversity and the pluri-linguism. This attempt opened
the door to a more widened reception of Alexakis work and it could be used as a starting
point towards the concept of a global human identity.
Keywords: Greek literature, Vassilis Alexakis,
universalism,
identity, bilinguism.
Louisa Christodoulidou
Aegean University, Rhodes, Greece
Live Spaces . Blanche Molfessis s Case
The narrative of this story is space-timely set in Greece, Cyprus, Paris and
Constantinople, before, during and after the civil war. It concerns preposterous events of
Blanche Molfessis birth, as well as incidents of the own childhood. The narrative place,
which concerns us here, is specified by two pivots: the house and the archeological place of
Delphi, on the one hand for the former touches upon the personal-private moments and the
latter touches upon the collective-national moments, and on the other hand, while there
seems to be no organic relation between them, going back to
Bachelard
and Vernant we are
allowed to
malte
certain associations and show the relevance among all these. The literary
reconstruction of the house and archeological place attempted by the writer, turns them into
archetypal values. The house constitutes a place for her, which is depicted as an ideal
setting with a striking semantic weight for her opening conversation with her parents
birthplace. With her youth s initiating and archetypal trip to Delphi, a union is achieved
with the Primitive womb, the Omphalus of Earth, marked by the rebaptism in the water of
the
Castalia
Spring, finding an outlet for her internal concerns and quests. The narrator s
textual world in her book,
L
arme aux yeux,
evolves in such a way that it manifests the
significance of the place. The sensation of this particular space is strikingly depicted as a
symbolic place. Sketching the place, the writer also traces her own internal itinerary, which
constitutes a topography of her own internal being in the quest of her own identity.
Keywords: Cypriot literature, Blanche Molfessis, the quest for identity, rebirth.
Yiannis E. Ioannou
Cyprus University, Nicosia, Cyprus
The Francophone Literature in Cyprus
This article attempts to give an assessment of the contribution of the Francophony
in Cyprus in relation to the dialect and, in particular, to Cypriot literature. Having briefly
recalled the liistory of a linguistic contribution that begins with some
borrowings from French dating back to the Lusignan period, and arrives to
the actual Cypriot dialect, we then evoke the presence of Rimbaud and his
rather legendary impact, before presenting some French-speaking figures of the island,
whose activity and work have left their mark on Cypriot culture. This francophone
literature, sustained as soon as the Independence
(1960)
by a highly active French Cultural
Centre, has allowed Cypriote to keep an open window into a world other than the sole
Anglo-Saxon one that was perceived as the oppressor during almost a century.
Keywords: Cypriot literature, French influences, Rimbaud,
Pavios Valdasseridis,
the
Théodossis
brothers, Yiorgos Filippou
Piéridis.
Ezza Agha Malak
Lebanon University, Tripoli, Lebanon
Feminine vs. Masculine Writing
Francophone Feminine Literature in Lebanon
Testimony
oř
a she-writer
The article focuses on the differences between masculine and feminine writing
techniques and visions of the world in the context of Lebanese and Near Eastern literatures.
Keywords: Lebanese literature, feminist studies, the social status of the woman in
Eastern societies.
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Volume 11
Coordinateurs
Ovidiu Mircean
& Efstratia Oktapoda-Lu
Voyages dans le Levant et ailleurs
Sommaire
Ovidiu Mircean
Homo Errans.
Passaggi, Errarne, Nomadi
Homo errans
Corin Braga
Ştefan
Borbély
Gisèle
Vanhese
Ruxandra
Cesereami
Cristina
Felea
Carmen
Bujdei
Ovidiu Mircean
66
Andrada
Fătu-Tutoveanu
9
Utopie, récit de voyage et voyage extraordinaire
18 Hermann Hesse
's
'Glass Bead Game
'
23
Soms
le signe d'Ulysse. L'errance dans l'écriture chez
Benjamin
Fondane et
chez Paul
Celan
34
Homo Viator in
Transition. Travelling
through and-with
Céline, Nabokov, Kerouak
40
Kerouac and America on
the Road to Postmodernism
52
Narratives of 'LiquidModernity
':
Translation,
Migraña'
and
Nomadism in Salman Rushdie's Novels
Errarne pirandelliane nella narrativa di Paul
Auster.
Appunti
per una speculazione
72
The Space and the Revelatory Voyage in the Chilean Exile
Literatuře.
Impossible Geographies: Inner and Outer Space
Voyages
dans (es
Balkans
Ovidiu Ivancu
81
From Balkan to Cultural Balkanism
Mircea Muthu
88
Venice, between Orient
et
Occident
Anna Caiozzo
90
Quelques remarques sur
Constantinople
réelle et imaginaire
dans la relation de voyage de
Ruiz
González
de Clax'ijo
Ovidiu Pecican
96
Voyages. A
Propaedeutics.
Types
of Travels in the Romanian Middle Ages
Emilia Ivancu
101
Travelling with Gulliver in the Balkans and Ruritania
Sanda Cordoş
115
La Romania
nomade
nella prosa
postcomunista
Le Levant francophone
Efstratia
Oktapoda-Lu
123
Les littératures francophones de l'Est méditerranéen
Antoine Sassine
130
L'Orient méditerranéen dans la poésie de Nadine Ltaif
Elena Marchese
143
Ecrire en exil, écrire l'exil
Bernadette
Ginestet-Levine
Jean-Pierre
Castellani
Ami Etensel
Ildem
Christiane
Chaulet Achour
Cristina
Boidaid-Boisson
Rosalia Bivona
Olympia G.
Antoniadou
Louisa
Christodoulidou
Yiarmis E.
Ioannou
Ezza Agha
Malak
153
Les tribulations de l'identité
:
Le nom dit et le non-dit dans
«
Les marches de sable
»
d'Andrée Cheddid
159
Amin
Maaloufà la recherche de ses origines
165
Exil et identité dans l'œuvre de Kenizé Mourad
175
De l'Orient immémorial au Proche-Orient
d
'aujourd
'hui
:
Myriam Antaki, romancière
188
Les romans d'Andrée Chedid: Une réécriture du tragique?
203
Beyrouth
n
'est pas loin. Espaces urbains palpables et
impalpables dans
«
Sous le ciel d'Occident
»
de Ghassan Fawaz
217
Mondialisation et identité
:
Le cas de Vassilis Alexakis
236 «
L'espace vécu
».
Le cas de Blanche Molfessis
249
La francophonie à Chypre et sa contribution à la littérature
255
Ecrits féminins, écrits masculins. L'activité littéraire féminine
d
'expression française au Liban. Le témoignage d'une
écrivaine
259
Compte-rendus
303
Abstracts
.m
зоз
2
Abstracts
Corín
Braga
Babes-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Utopia,
travel
narrative
and extraordinary voyage
The text explores the relationship between the travel literature (as a non-fiction
genre)
ала
the extraordinary voyages (as a fiction genre), on the one hand, and Utopian
literature, on the other. Using various literary samples and also previous theoretical
commentaries on utopianism, it proves that
utopias
are symbiotically merged with voyage
narrative. This cohabitation refers not only to the plot necessity of introducing Utopian
descriptions through a geographical travel to far away places, but also to the presence of the
main character and traveler, who is also a story-teller and
a raisonneur
of the Utopian
society.
Keywords: Utopia, travel literature, extraordinary voyages, science-fiction.
Ştefan
Borbély
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Hermann Hesse's 'Glass Bead Game'
Analysing the purely male spiritual enclave depicted in Hermann Hesse's novel 'The
Glass Bead Game4, the author traces the possible origins of this game to Leibniz's esoteric
texts, in which the German philosopher imagined knowledge as the skill of detecting abstract
and subtle correspondences between the different sciences and the
divme
plenitude of the
cosmos, based on the art of a generalised calculus, or mathematics, which he called
Characteristica
Universalis. In
Hesse's independent school system of
Castalia,
the glass bead
game is practised by its participants as a universal science
(mathesis unh'ersalis)
of elaborated
European and Oriental cultural symbols and analogies, governed by the pure and abstract
equations of mathematics and music. Since Hesse's
Castalia
functions as a Utopian, exclusively
intellectual province, its vulnerability towards the everyday history and politics of the
surrounding nations brings it inevitably to the bring of decline and future destruction. Hermann
Hesse's protagonist, (lie skilled Josef
Knecht
reaches the highest rank of 'Master of the Game'
(magister
ludi),
and then quits his office in an attempt to escape from collective mystification
and inconsistency.
Keywords: Hermann Hesse, Swiss German literature, literature and decadence,
utopia.
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JR.,
Gisèle
Vanhese
^ЩІШ^Ш
University of Calabria Italy
Under the sign of Ulysses
Wandering through the Text in Benjamin Fondane's and Paul Celan's Writings
This work studies the
intertextual
traces of Ullysean wandering in the poetry of
Benjamin
Fondane
and Paul
Celan.
We demonstrate that Benjamin
Fondane
reprises from the
archetypal core of the Odyssey two characteristics of the persona: the centrifugal
élan
of the
journey out and the centripetal movement towards the intimacy of the hearth. He integrates
these into his own personal myth inscribed with motifs from the Titanic, considered as the
vessel of the dead, and of the sea crossing assimilated with the journey to the beyond: a
personal myth that issues forth in a Ulyssean aesthetic emphasizing the snares and perils of the
seduction of the siren. In Paul
Celan
the myth of Ulysses centers on deadly suicidal waters and
on the memory of Ithaca assimilated with that of his lost Romania. He has also transposed to a
metaphysical plane the "mytheme" of "Nobody" from the Homeric narrative in the collection,
Die Niemcmdsrose. We demonstrate that, within this perspective, the Meridian coincides with
the Ulyssean periplum and that the unknown addressee of the poem, tossed like a bottle into the
sea, becomes paradoxically the "nova terra". The poem, as an experience of the abyss, thus
reveals itself, both with
Celan
and
Fondane,
as a final mutation of the perilous navigation of the
mythic hero.
Keywords: Benjamin
Fondane,
Paul
Celan,
nomadism, poetry, sea, quest, myth.
Ruxandra Cesereanu
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Homo Iffatorin Transition
Travelling through and with
Céline,
Habokov,
Kerouàk
The characters in the three novels (Voyage
au bout de la nuit, Lolita
and On the
Road) analysed in this essay willingly put themselves in the position of
a picaro.
This
allows them to taste the world, but also to isolate themselves preventively from it. They
adopt
a raisonneur
strategy, as they discover that time can be more easily controlled
through narrativity. Some of the characters develop different theories related to temporality
in order to justify their condition of frenetic wanderers. Throughout their journeys, their
greatest acts of defiance are against Time: their straggle is to find the way in which
tíme
can be manipulated so that they might sublimate their despair and solitude.
Keywords: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouak, initiation
voyage, self-discovery.
Cristina
Felea
Л?
305
Babes-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ы^щ^
Kerouac
and America on the Road to Postmodernism
This study introduces Jack
Kerouac as
an author "who intuited aspects of the
postmodern and developed fictional strategies and projects that both express and
engage our contemporary moment" (Hunt,
xxvi)
and anticipated formal, artistic and
cultural phenomena that would be theorized later in postmodernist thought. On the
Road, his most popular work is presented in its quality of transitional work from The
Town and the City, a first published traditional work, to experimental novels such as
Visions of Cody.
Keywords: American literature, Beat Generation, Jack
Kerouac:
On the Road,
Postmodernism.
Carmen Bujdei
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Narratives of 'Liquid Modernity1:
Translation, Migrancy and Nomadism in Salman Rushdie's Novels
This paper looks at translation, migrancy and nomadism as strategies of self-
definition and self-location in several of Salman Rushdie's works. In contrast with the
alleged solidity of the myths legitimating the birth of 'imaginary homelands,' novels like
Midnight's Children
(1981)
and Shame
(1983)
promote the notion that countries need to be
fluidly projected into existence. In his more recent narratives,
suchas
The Ground Beneath
Her Feet
(1999),
Fury
(2001)
and Shalimar the Clown
(2005),
Rushdie seems to confirm,
as well as amend to some extent,
Zygmunt
Bauman's diagnosis of the progressive
liquefaction of the age of modernity, whereby solid, rigid, traditional societal and power
structures are being supplanted, in this
'post-panopticaľ
stage, by more fluid and flexible,
extra-territorial figurations.
Keywords: Salman Rushdie, translation, migrancy, nomadism, 'liquid modernity'.
Ovidiu Mircean
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Pirandello's Patterns of
Errance
in Paul Auster's Fiction
An introduction to a Speculative Theory
The study is meant to propose a comparative approach between
Luigi
Pirandello's
characters
(Mattia
Pascal, the six characters searching for an author) and the postmodern
dispersive interiority enacted in Paul Auster's narrative. The arguments take into account
both the thematic coincidences, (the existence as a perpetual metamorphosis of the surface,
the inner world as simulacrum) and the stylistic teclmiques that aim to create a continuum
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between the world of the reader and the different levels of the textual
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reality (metalepsis,
trompe
ľoeil).
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Keywords: Paul
Auster,
Luigi
Pirandello, "postmodern identity", simu¬
lacra,
"trompe
І 'оеіГ'.
Andrada
Fătu-Tutoveanu
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The Space and the Revelatory Voyage in the Chilean Exile Literature
Impossible Geographies: Inner and Outer Space
The voyage, main concept at an implicit level in the Chilean exile literature (the
generation of Isabel
Allende,
Luis Sepulveda, Antonio
Skármeta
and others) expresses in a
symbolical form the constant need of the individual to recuperate through the artistic act his
native space and the area of his identity. This voyage through mental spaces inscribes new
maps, on which the space is fragmented in islands whose names are given by nostalgia,
memory and by an act of re-creation. This literature tries to rebuild vertically and
horizontally the geography of a country as it continues to exist only in the memory, an
invented country, as Isabel
Allende
calls it, which persists beyond the authentic space,
curved into an act of serf-discovery and serf-construction. As reality (initially forbidden)
cannot sustain itself (when the contact is reestablished) against nostalgia, because it has
brutally lost its innocence, the only possible native country resides in the language, a
privileged space where the dynamic act of combining memory an invention takes place by
drawing the new lines of a vital space. Out of the magic, protecting, circle, projected in a
cruel no-man's-land, the individual has to assume an inner re-building in order to find new
roots in this mental, invented country, trough a revelatory voyage to a necessary but
impossible geography.
Keywords: Chilean literature, Isabel
Allende, Luis
Sepulveda, Antonio
Skármeta,
exile, identity.
Ovidiu Ivancu
1
Decembrie
1918
University, Alba-Iulia, Romania
From Balkanto Cultural Balkanism
There are few terms to have met, as Balkanism did, a greater political
contamination, a greater voiding of the basic meaning and a greater acquiring of altered
meanings. These altered meanings are accounted for by the fact that Balkanism is too often
thought of from the outside, from a distance cardinally expressed in the terms of two forms
of culture: East vs. West. However, beyond its pejorative valences (rather invented than
real), Balkanism subsumes a world not easy to frame. The most common question is
whether this notion is not artificial, whether it does not cover a distinct reality that requires
a specific defimtion. Here are enough reasons to answer affirmatively, as well as there are
reasons to make us believe that Balkanism has already overcome the
ЈШ
geographical borders of the Balkans, being exported outside its native
Џ
land.
ч
Keywords: Balkanism, crisis, territoriality, nostalgia centre vs. periphery
picaresque, inconsistency, homo dupplex.
Mircea Muthu
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Venice, between the Orient
et
the Occident
The article analyses the unique cultural characteristics of Venice as the meeting-
point between Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy in the Byzantine Empire of the
Middle Ages.
Keywords: The Balkans, Venice, Orient, Occident, Byzantium.
AnnaCaiozzo
Sorbonne
University, Paris
7,
France
Some Remarks on the Real
/
Fictitious Constantinople
in the Travel Narrative of Ruiz
González
de
Clavfyo
At the beginning of the 15th century, the embassy sent by the Castillian
Bűng
to
Timur Leng,
leaded by Ruiz
González de Clavijo
reached Constantinople on October
1403,
i.e.
fifty years before the fall of the city by the Ottoman Turks. The Spanish ambassadors
stayed there three weeks and visited the famous city, its beautiful public monuments, its
religious edifices (churches and monasteries). Clavijo's testimony is
vety
interesting to
study the Constantinople's imaginary in the western people's minds. Clavijo was seduced
by this peaceful city, the architectural beauty of the churches and especially by the frescoes
and the mosaic pictures. He also described the numerous relics, the miraculous artefacts and
some monuments from late antiquity. The most interesting for us is to discover in Clavijo's
vision the Byzantine people supernatural creeds and their innocent and magic approaches of
the Christian faith.
Keywords: Ruiz
González
de
Clavijo, Constantinople, magic, marvels, dragons,
relics.
Ovidiu Pecican
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Voyages. A Propaedeutics. Types of Travels in the Romanian Middle
Ases
The paper focuses on the perception of space in the medieval Romanian culture.
The orientation and the role attributed to the geographical axes are a sample of the
Orthodox, namely, Eastern-European vision of the world in the Middle
Ages. Veru'cality is seen more as an invitation to a metaphysical ascension,
while
horizontálny
is reserved to the terrestrial life. Using such abstract
coordinates, medieval Romanians organized their travels alternating the rhythms of
movement and rest.
Keywords: Travel literature, historical anthropology, Romanian principalities,
Middle Ages, horizontal and vertical dimensions of space, movement, rest.
Emilia Ivancu
1
Decembrie
1918
University, Alba-Iulia, Romania
Travelling with Gulliver in the Balkans and Ruritania
In the light of A. Toynbee's view of the relation between Western Europe and
Eastern Europe, the present article aims a double journey together with Gulliver (here
Gulliver being an archetype of the British colonising thinking and mentality): first, the
journey made by some British travellers in the Romanian Principalities in the
18*
century
and secondly, the journey through the text. At the same time, we shall try to reshape the
real geography of the Romanian lands and its people through the imaginary geography of
the travellers' texts.
Keywords: the Balkans, the Romanian Principalities, imaginary geography,
journey, British imperialism, the Other, stereotype images.
Sanda Cordoş
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Nomad Romania in Post-communist Romanian Novels
This work focuses on the phenomena of exile and emigration as reflected in
Romanian literature after
1990.
It explores two directions: the fiction literature that presents
the Romanian emigration in Post-communism, most often seen as an escape from the
"doomed homeland", and the non-fiction genre of memoirs written by Romanian writers
that had left Romania before the fall of Communism. In these memoirs the return to the
natal country appears as a "last voyage", a death voyage, to a bizarre, tormented and futile
world. Adrian Otoiu, Fiorina ffis,
Petra Babru, Dumitra Tepeneag
are authors used as
samples for the first series of texts, Norman
Manea, Gabriela
Melinescu,
Matei Calinescu,
Sanda
Golopentia,
Constantin Eretescu,
for the second.
Keywords: Romania, Post-communism, exile, emigration, loneliness, anguish.
Efstratia Oktapoda-Lu
Sorbonne
University, Paris IV, France
Francophone Literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
The article makes a survey of the Francophone writers from the countries of the
Levant and Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Keywords: Francophone literatures, Mediterranean Sea, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt,
Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Israel.
Antoine
Scissine
Mount Royal College, Calgary, Canada
The Mediterranean Orient in
Nadine Ltaîf's
poetry
The imaginary world of Lebanese Canadian exiled poet
Nadine Ltaif
is rooted in
the context of middle-eastern geography and mythology. Any attempt at understanding her
poetic experience must be anchored in Mediterranean symbolism. This article explores the
theme of exile in the poetry of this poet and identifies four essential mythological figures:
Ishtar, Phoenix,
Agar
and Hecate. Ltaif invokes these symbols and reconstruct their
metaphoric meanings in order to seek a metaphysical remedy for her anguish. The analysis
of these Mediterranean symbols reveals a metaphysical process or a quest which begins
with the exploration of the anguish of uprootedness and exile, reaches an emotional
catharsis that desperately searches for a emotional refuge and finally leads to the emergence
of a feeling of liberation and plenitude.
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Nadine
Ltaif, exile, Ishtar,
Phoenix,
Agar,
Hecate.
Elena
Marchese
Ottawa University, Canada
Writing in Exile, Writing about the Exile
In this article, I intend to analyze how it is said and lived the exile in the novels
of
Abla
Farhoud,
Le bonheur a
la queue
glissante
(1998)
[Happiness has the slipping tail]
which gained the France-Quebec price in
1999,
et Splendide
Solitude
(2001)
[Splendid
loneliness].
Abla
Farhoud, an author of Lebanese origin from Quebec, lived the uprooting
in her own youth when she left Lebanon, with her family, to settle in Quebec. In her
novels, where the personal experience is often combined with the fiction, the female
protagonists must face the condition of the exile, they must learn how to be reinvented in
order to create a new identity and to find again their love for life. Although the exile is
represented in a different way in the two novels, one can however affirm that the
protagonists live the exile not only as immigrant, but also as women who remain still
excluded from certain social functions. In
Le bonheur a la
queue
glissante,
the protagonist, Dounia, lives a triple exile. Initially, she is
exiled to have left her native land. Then, she is also exiled on the social
standing because, as a woman, and especially an immigrant woman, she seems to be able
to fulfill herself only like a mother and a wife, within her family. Finally, the linguistic
exile deprives Dounia of her word, and consequently, she does not have the possibility of
being affirmed. In
Splendide
Solitude, the protagonist is a woman who, after a life
devoted to her family, finds herself alone and has to think about her life. Her loneliness
thus becomes a metaphor of her alienation, of seclusion not only from the others but also
from herself. The exile seems to be a difficult condition to support especially when the
women are confronted with it. However, it is thanks to their sensibility that they can find
in themselves the impulse to survive, to live.
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Abla
Farhoud, exile, the social status of women.
Bernadette
Ginestet-Levine
Clemson University, South Carolina, USA
The Quest for Identify:
Saying and Unsaying the Names in
Andrée
Cheddid's Novel
'Les
marches
de sable'
The desert is an essential element of the Egyptian identity. It has been a referential
symbol since antiquity. It is the frame chosen by
Andrée
Chedid, a writer of Lebano-
Egyptian descent, for her novel
Les
Marches
de sable,
The desert is an ever-changing space
where one must re-invent oneself in order to survive. The three female characters, Cyre,
Marie, and Athanasia, set out for the desert on an identity quest. After a long period of
gestation in union with the cosmic emptiness of the desert, they give birth to their names,
that is, to themselves.
Keywords: Egyptian literature,
Andrée
Chedid, the desert, the quest for identity,
self-engendering.
Jean-Pierre
Castellani
François
Rabelais University, Tours, France
Amin Maalouf
:
The search for the Origins
In his latest book
Origines (Grasset,
2004),
Amin
Maalouf delves into his personal
and familial history, developing a veritable quest for his ancestors that becomes an
individual and collective memory of Lebanon. In this quest he comes to grips with the
autobiographical as well as the mythical. By returning to his origins the author leads us
back to our own beginnings in a complex dialectics between East and West. The analysis is
based on the theory of autobiography and an attempt to understand the singularity of the
proposed pact between author and reader.
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Amin
Maalouf, the quest for the ancestors, the
reading pact.
Arzu
Eternel
Udem
^Ц
Ъ1\ ^
Hacettepe
University,
Ankara, Turquie
\?^^£~0
Exile and Identity in
Kenízé Mouraďs
Work
During long years
Kenizé
Mourad worked as a journalist at the
Nouvel
Observateur.
In
1987,
she became worldwide famous with her first novel entitled Regards
from the Dead Princess. This is the story of Princess
Selma,
granddaughter of the Ottoman
Sultan Mourad V. She died in exile in Paris. In fact Princess
Selma
is
Kenizé
Mourad's
own mother. In her second novel The Garden ofBadalpur, she writes her own story, her
childhood in Paris and her discovery of India and her father, the former Rajah ofBadalpur.
With her third book Our Sacred Land,
Kenizé
Mourad returns as a journalist and listens to
the voice of ordinary people from Israel and Palestine. She tries not to judge but to
understand the two parts. One can detach three themes dominating these books: exile,
identity and sense of belonging. The exile of the Ottoman family and the exile of the
Palestinian
people. The identity quest of Zahr (The Garden of Badalpur) and Kenize
Mourad herself. The sense of belonging of two communities to "the sacred land".
Keywords: Turkish literature,
Kenizé
Mourad, exile, identity, sense of belonging.
Christiane Chaulet
Achour
Cergy-Pontoise University, France
From Ancient Orient to Contemporary Near East: Myriam Antaki's Novels
In this study, we propose an approach to the works of Myriam Antaki, a Syrian
author who writes in French. We focus on how the third novel,
Les versets du
pardon,
echoes the first one,
La Bien-aimée,
published fourteen years earlier. The latter inaugurates
the evocation of the immemorial "Orient" which continues in the second and the fourth
novels
-
while the third novel introduces the reader to the cruel present of today's Palestine
and Israel. Even though the style remains similar, a much different use of the two narrative
poles, war and love, produces a unique effect. One can only wish to analyze such an art of
telling stories of a Byzantine princess as well as a Palestinian terrorist.
Keywords: Syrian literature, Myriam Antaki, war, love.
Cristina Boidard-Boisson
Cádiz
University, Spain
Andrée
Chedid's Novels: Rewriting Tragedy?
The aim of this work is to analyze the paper of tragedy and the tragic in the novels
by
Andrée
Chedid. In her novels, Chedid gives a great importance to tragical events which
overwhelm man's power, such as fate, history, violence, or many other elements which give
a tragic color to the narrative. She takes her inspiration after real events, mainly contem¬
porary ones Her work contains many elements that belong specifically to the tragical genre
i-^lfe I-^
^
sne uses
writing strategies which enhance even more the tragic
atmosphere.
Keywords: Egyptian literature,
Andrée
Chedid, tragedy, fate, history,
violence.
Rosalia Bivona
Palermo University, Italy
Beirut is Near. Visible and Invisible Urban Spaces
in
Ghassan
Fawaz's 'Under the Western Sun'
Under the Western sun is a long monologue where the Lebanese war is becoming a
powerful narrative trigger, revealing the causes and phantasms besieging the two
characters: Unlel and Mehmed. It is not really the story of a conflict. It is not either another
novel about Beirut, but only pieces of the Lebanese mosaic breaking out like an exploding
shell. Untel and Mehmed are two Lebanese leftist students, living in Paris at the
Cité
Internationale, for their Doctorate diplomas. On one side they express their feelings about
exile, being torn apart or losing some of their illusions and on the other side enjoying
thoroughly the dimensions and variations (freedom) of Parisian student life. This chaotic
and exhilarating novel is far from being only a tale (story) and even further of the art of
building up a plot or creating new characters, because it rather builds up spaces which
become the organizers of the scheme. Paris on one side, Beirut on the oiher side, just as a
pattern on a rag. This dualism can be noticed under several aspects:
eros
and pathos,
labyrinth and lay out, distance and closeness, order and disorder, love and hate, war and
peace, lucidity and madness, present and'flash back'.
Keywords: Lebanese literature,
Ghassan
Fawaz, exile, Paris, Beirut,
eros,
pathos.
Olympia G.
Antóniádon
Aristotle University, Thessalonica, Greece
Globalisation and Identity: Vassilis Alexakis's Case
This article seeks to demonstrate how Alexakis, a Greek-French-speaking author,
through his writing, produced in a set claimed to be multicultural, escapes the risk to
undermine his
identit}'
self-determination, how he is ensured on his own originality through
this mosaic and, how he finally acquires a universal dimension. At first sight, the concepts
of identity and universalization seem radically opposite: the personal versus the universal
one. The case of Alexakis, on the contrary, testifies how the identity, by its nature into full
becoming, can go through several stages and acquire, finally, universal dimensions,
although often anchored in the local. Typical representative of all emigrants, with the
constant reference to his own situation of emigrant, all his work is a game of identity
unfolding, aiming at deciding which culture (that of birth, the Greek one, or that of
adoption, the French one) he belongs to, This bi-directional course takes various forms
being expressed through a specific set of themes, common to the entire
"-p;
313
^
human community (death, love, language, exile). The solution to this
ЩщгйЩї
dilemma is given through an African "minor' language, the
sango,
which
-^śsafeŁif
shows him the way to dodge the French-Greek bi-polarity. Thanks to this dialect, his
writing is set up to a planetary standard, since it is a writing which implies the feeling of
belonging to the same interdependent community, of a mutual sharing of values across
nationalities, borders and cultures, towards the respect of the others, including its
differences, in favor of the cultural diversity and the pluri-linguism. This attempt opened
the door to a more widened reception of Alexakis' work and it could be used as a starting
point towards the concept of a global human identity.
Keywords: Greek literature, Vassilis Alexakis,
universalism,
identity, bilinguism.
Louisa Christodoulidou
Aegean University, Rhodes, Greece
'Live Spaces'. Blanche Molfessis's Case
The narrative of this "story" is space-timely set in Greece, Cyprus, Paris and
Constantinople, before, during and after the civil war. It concerns preposterous events of
Blanche Molfessis' birth, as well as incidents of the own childhood. The narrative place,
which concerns us here, is specified by two pivots: the house and the archeological place of
Delphi, on the one hand for the former touches upon the personal-private moments and the
latter touches upon the collective-national moments, and on the other hand, while there
seems to be no organic relation between them, going back to
Bachelard
and Vernant we are
allowed to
malte
certain associations and show the relevance among all these. The literary
reconstruction of the house and archeological place attempted by the writer, turns them into
archetypal values. The house constitutes a place for her, which is depicted as an ideal
setting with a striking semantic weight for her opening "conversation" with her parents'
birthplace. With her youth's initiating and archetypal trip to Delphi, a union is achieved
with the Primitive womb, the Omphalus of Earth, marked by the rebaptism in the water of
the
Castalia
Spring, finding an outlet for her internal concerns and quests. The narrator's
textual world in her book,
L
'arme aux yeux,
evolves in such a way that it manifests the
significance of the place. The sensation of this particular space is strikingly depicted as a
symbolic place. Sketching the place, the writer also traces her own internal itinerary, which
constitutes a topography of her own internal being in the quest of her own identity.
Keywords: Cypriot literature, Blanche Molfessis, the quest for identity, rebirth.
Yiannis E. Ioannou
Cyprus University, Nicosia, Cyprus
The Francophone Literature in Cyprus
This article attempts to give an assessment of the contribution of the Francophony
in Cyprus in relation to the dialect and, in particular, to Cypriot literature. Having briefly
recalled the liistory of a linguistic contribution that begins with some
borrowings from French dating back to the Lusignan period, and arrives to
the actual Cypriot dialect, we then evoke the presence of Rimbaud and his
rather legendary impact, before presenting some French-speaking figures of the island,
whose activity and work have left their mark on Cypriot culture. This francophone
literature, sustained as soon as the Independence
(1960)
by a highly active French Cultural
Centre, has allowed Cypriote to keep an open window into a world other than the sole
Anglo-Saxon one that was perceived as the oppressor during almost a century.
Keywords: Cypriot literature, French influences, Rimbaud,
Pavios Valdasseridis,
the
Théodossis
brothers, Yiorgos Filippou
Piéridis.
Ezza Agha Malak
Lebanon University, Tripoli, Lebanon
Feminine vs. Masculine Writing
Francophone Feminine Literature in Lebanon
Testimony
oř
a she-writer
The article focuses on the differences between masculine and feminine writing
techniques and visions of the world in the context of Lebanese and Near Eastern literatures.
Keywords: Lebanese literature, feminist studies, the social status of the woman in
Eastern societies. |
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