L’expérience d’Ulysse : de la réécriture de l’histoire à la réinterprétation de l’héroïsme
Ulysses’s Experience: from the Rewriting of History to the Reinterpretation of Heroism

Summary/Abstract: Our thinking is based on Homer's Odyssey. This text has peculiarities linked to the fact that the experience of travel is located at the level of discourse. Speech is not a simple process in which Ulysses expresses his thought or feelings to the Phaeacians. Likewise, the message that is constructed is not a repository of meanings independent of their context, but rather serves specific purposes and various intentions. The storytelling involves a strategy of influence by means of which Odysseus tends to exert an effect on his interlocutors: to convince, to seduce, to manipulate or to dominate. It is clear here that several terms need to be revisited in order to question the invincible force of their weight, such as nostalgia, bravery, exile, etc. In order to defend this hypothesis, it is necessary to aspire to a critical re-reading of Ulysses’s story and to a reinterpretation of the device which is the basis of his heroism and glory.

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