Marginalité et errance dans l’œuvre de Laurent Gaudé : le vagabond comme figure de la rupture
The tramp and outcast in Laurent Gaudé’s work or the hobo as a social outcast figure
Author(s): Donia BoubakerSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: hobo; outcast; rebel; exclusion; alienation; resistance; primitive morality
Summary/Abstract: Partly a tramp and partly an outcast, the hobo as a character in Laurent Gaudé's imagination and fiction is a multi-faceted figure, a metaphor for modern world crisis. Resorting to a sort of primitive morality, he elects to break away from a universe of exclusion, alienating individuals to the point of stripping them off of their humanity and he ultimately becomes a hobo. His wanderings become a form of resistance to repressive normality and the Gaudean tramp evolves into a social rebel figure.
Journal: Quêtes littéraires
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 164-172
- Page Count: 9
- Language: French