UNE ANNÉE CHEZ LES FRANÇAIS DE FOUAD LAROUI : UN DRAME ENTRE HUMOUR ET IRONIE
UNE ANNÉE CHEZ LES FRANÇAIS BY FOUAD LAROUI : A DRAMA BETWEEN HUMOUR AND IRONY.
Author(s): Amine MARTAHSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, French Literature, Stylistics
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: laughter; bitter laugh; comic; irony; humour; dramatic language;
Summary/Abstract: The reader laughs while reading Fouad LAROUI’s novels. Yet, his writings are far from being comic, they are utterly serious, very serious, in fact; we laugh about serious things! This, paradoxically, raises the question of the laugher himself, with extreme acuteness. This reversed perspective brings us to some essential issues in the work of this author and his conception of art. We shall analyse the novel Une Année chez les Français, focusing essentially on the comic devices and the traces of the irony. We shall unravel the functioning of the text which comes in various layers: from an intuition of the reader which triggers laughter in the beginning, next arousing a cautious laugh, to eventually suspending laughter when the mechanism turns against the reader himself.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Limbi şi literaturi romanice.
- Issue Year: XXVII/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 83-97
- Page Count: 14
- Language: French