Maupassant et les orientals
Maupassant and the oriental images

Author(s): Sonya Aleksandrova-Koleva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: Maupassant; otherness; foreigner; female character
Summary/Abstract: The text aims to reveal some of the weaknesses of perceiving one’s own face compared to that of a foreigner in the prose-fiction works of Maupassant. For this purpose we analyze novels and stories dedicated to Algeria and the Arabs, with an especial emphasis Allouma as well as on the otherness of female character. Exploring a foreigner’s characteristics, we encounter initial duality in the description which affords approaching closer the foreigner’s, and moving away from one’s own, image. In addition, an impression of compassion to a foreigner’s problems arises while critique of one’s own emerges.

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