The sea and the beach play a very specific role in the minimalist scenes and fiction of the contemporary Belgian francophone writer Francis Dannemark. They represent both space undefinition and fantasmatic escape. Our critical approach will try to illustrate that in several Dannemark’s novels unanimously considered as “minimalist” and “postmodern” by criticism. The author tries to illustrate the narrative techn...
The author proposes a broad reflection about the elaboration of a promotional flyer in favour of French foreign language learning and the role it plays in Portuguese context, and elsewhere in globalized context
The author proposes a critical and semantic synthesis of the meaning and practice of the "politically correct" ideology subtly applied to literature, and its dangers.
One the most important features of Michel Houellebecq’s novelistic writing is extravagancy and exaggeration. We will try to show how this writer builds his characters through cliché and epiphrastic reflection. We would like to highlight in this article the way this author, by fictional means, considers some social categories and actors by emphasizing with ruthless prejudice some of their features as though they...
This paper suggests a national identity reading (Belgian Francophone) of the novel La salle de bain (1985) by «French» writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
Comparative re-reading of both Cl. Simon and J-M. G. Le Clézio’s speeches at Stockholm Nobel prize reward ceremony makes it clear that there is a diametrically opposed approach of narrative fiction between them which allows us to measure the distance and mutation in process within French and francophone literary field for about twenty years. It also shows a changing point as far as the way France sees itself or...
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