Un aller simple, or Rewriting L'immoraliste in Reverse
2021; American Association of Teachers of French; Volume: 95; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tfr.2021.0183
ISSN2329-7131
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
ResumoThis article situates Didier van Cauwelaert's Un aller simple (1994) in a broader literary context by arguing that it is a "rewriting" of André Gide's L'immoraliste (1902). The analysis, anchored in theoretical frameworks of Orientalism and postmodernism (including Jean-François Lyotard's theory of "rewriting"), examines the texts' shared themes of travel, illness, and the pursuit of personal authenticity. I contend that Un aller simple reverses within these themes the diegetic structure and the protagonists' character development, linguistic strategies, and relationship to power structures of class and ethnicity. The rewriting found in Un aller simple creates subtle yet pervasive intertextuality with L'immoraliste.
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