Mythes et paraboles dans les romans de Christian Guay-Poliquin
Myths and Parables in the Novels of Christian Guay-Poliquin

Author(s): Petr Kyloušek
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Quebec literature; Christian Guay-Poliquin; dystopia; myths; parables
Summary/Abstract: The dystopian diptych constituted by two Christian Guay-Poliquin’s novels, Le fil des kilomètres (2013) and Le Poids de la neige (2016), features an apocalyptic narrative by highlighting two models: the road novel in the first volume and the novel of the soil in the second. This contrasting arrangement is crossed by four shared mythemes: the myths of Labyrinth and of Icarus and the parables of the Prodigal Son and of the Good Samaritan. The analysis focuses on the contribution of those hypotexts to the transformation of dystopian narratives into liberating ones in the sense of the Christian tradition of French-Canadian and Quebec literature.

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