PÈRE OU MÈRE IN ABSENTIA OU POUR UNE REVALORISATION DES RELATIONS INTERGÉNÉRATIONNELLES CHEZ J.M.G. LE CLÉZIO ET GÖRAN TUNSTRÖM
FATHER / MOTHER IN ABSENTIA OR FOR A REEVALUATION OF THE INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE NOVELS OF J.M.G. LE CLÉZIO AND GÖRAN TUNSTRÖM

Summary/Abstract: Father / Mother in Absentia or for a Reevaluation of the Intergenerational Relationships in the Novels of J.M.G. Le Clézio and Göran Tunström. The present research wants to prove the fact that the intergenerational relationships in the novels written by J.M.G. Le Clézio and Göran Tunström are not necessarily based on the presence of one or both parents, but it could also be determined by the absence or disappearance of the family. As strange as it may sound, the characters from ötoile errante, Le chercheur d’or, La Quarantaine, L’Oratorio de Noël and Le voleur de Bible find their identity, after a long period of non sociable contact with the world or with the other members of their family. The more they live hidden from the rest of the people, more they can understand and recreate their past. The parents’ non presence determines a series of acts that culminate with the moral development of the heroes. At the end of the novels, the teenagers or the children that used to have a family and are now abandoned, turn out to be better prepared for the battles of life than those that had all they ever desired. This fact shows that the intergenerational relationships can be, and sometimes are influenced by powers that go even beyond direct communicational elements. In this context, the half-adults or the false children represent just some examples caused by the non presence of the parents.

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