Sauver le futur! Quand la tragédie vient au secours de la dystopie: Oscar de Profundis de Catherine Mavrikakis
Save the Future! When Tragedy Comes to the Rescue of Dystopia: Oscar de Profundis of C. Mavrikakis

Author(s): Hélène Amrit
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: dystopia; Quebec novel; tragedy; sociocriticism; history; memory
Summary/Abstract: Oscar de Profundis, narrating a somber outcome of our western societies appears to be a dystopia. Moreover, an intertext referring to the great classics of the genre such as 1984 by G. Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury comes to corroboratethis observation as obvious. However, in this apocalyptic climate hope – the unacceptable for a dystopia emerges implicitly. Indeed, a “reading between the lines” from almost imperceptible clues brings to light the tenuous, but very real presence of the tragedy. Against all odds, it is this presence of tragedy that generates hope as well as the dystopian kind of being renewed in this way.

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