LE JEU DES TEMPS DANS « NAISSANCE DE L’ODYSSEE » de Jean Giono
The Game of Times in « NAISSANCE DE L’ODYSSEE » by Jean Giono

Summary/Abstract: In this work, we tried to demonstrate the relation between the present, time of the narration and the past, time of the history, in the Jean Giono’s novel “Birth of the Odyssey”.The present is the time of the all events, of Ulysses’s adventure in the Mediterranean space, in his way of return to home. The past is used to create the portrait of a legendary hero and to reveal the real state of mind of all the characters. The narration advances slowly, because the past interferes frequently in the present. This slide from present to past is a slide from the reality to a word of fiction. Jean Giono creates an attempt to demonstrate how the fiction is brought to life.

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