Réécriture et auto-réécriture dans "Opération Rimbaud" de Jacques Godbout
Rewriting and auto-rewriting in Jacques Godbout’s “Operation Rimbaud”
Author(s): Ewa FigasSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Godbout; “Operation Rimbaud”; “Aquarium”; Decalogue; rewriting; Ethiopia
Summary/Abstract: The article traces rewriting and auto-rewriting strategies in Jacques Godbout’s “Operation Rimbaud” (1999), which revisits places and people from his former novel “Aquarium” (1962). The paper shows how in his latest novel Godbout returns to revolutionary Harar, Ethiopia, which Rimbaud visited, once again creating the character of a corrupted priest. Godbout rewrites Rimbaud’s biography, revising at the same time the biblical story of the Decalogue Tablets, as well as reminisces about his stay in Ethiopia.
Journal: Romanica Silesiana
- Issue Year: 2007
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 138-147
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French
