Scapegoating in ‘The Stranger’ By Albert Camus Panait-Ioncică, Diana-Eugenia
Holistica : Journal of business and public administration,
04/2021, Letnik:
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The present paper intends to discuss the amount to which scapegoating (as understood by René Girard in ‘The Scapegoat’) can be applied to Camus’s novel ‘The Stranger’. While issues arise when we are ...trying to apply Girard’s definition of scapegoating to the famous novel by Camus, this paper shall try to prove that they are only apparent issues, and that the novel is a perfect illustration of Girard’s theory.
El propósito del trabajo es indagar en la narrativa de Haruki Murakami a fin de reconocer, entre sus diversos argumentos, modelos de afinidad temática y organización estructural. La metodología ...aplicada parte de los postulados de la crítica literaria estructuralista (Todorov, Greimas) e incorpora asimismo el enfoque de relevantes especialistas (Seats, Strecher, Rubio) sobre el autor. Al atender a una serie de obras, se constatan confluencias estructurales apreciables entre ellas (novelas y cuentos). Las conclusiones extraídas permiten afirmar que las citadas obras se construyen a partir de esquemas comunes, esto es, se delimitan dos modelos temáticos y argumentales.
Niemal natychmiast po opublikowaniu Robinsona Crusoe robinsonada stała się częścią tradycji literatury niemieckojęzycznej. Także powieść współczesna odwołuje się do gatunku lub charakterystycznych ...motywów samotnika w hermetycznym (najczęściej wyspiarskim) środowisku bądź małej grupy w anormalnych warunkach społecznych. W artykule przedstawione zostały trzy warianty robinsonady: (1) narracje historyczno-polityczne, krytycznie odnoszące się do przeszłości lub do polityki współczesnej, przede wszystkim na gruncie postkolonialnym; (2) narracje postapokaliptyczne, opowiadające o współczesnych Robinsonach po katastrofie, w świecie przyszłości lub w kosmosie; (3) narracje miłosne, w których wyspa stanowi miejsce zejścia się kochanków, miejsce utopijnej izolacji i samotności we dwoje.
To answer the question posed by this issue of Cuadernos LIRICO, that of the formal strategies of life stories, I propose to analyze two novels. Two recent novels by two well-known Argentine writers, ...two ambitious novels that, in their own way, aim for totality: El espectáculo del tiempo by Juan José Becerra (2015) and El absoluto by Daniel Guebel (2016).I start from three hypotheses. The first considers that biography is a temporal form, that is to say that it represents temporal imaginaries, in this case those of a dominant present and a desired past. The second supposes that it is a hermeneutic form, in particular through questioning the father to try, in vain, to attribute a meaning to the subject's existence. The third associates the variants of the biography with the current situation of the novel: it would be the last story that can be told, in a period of weakening of the novel.Between the narrative of filiation and the genealogical novel, the two books lead to failures, times lags, melancholy, uncertainty. These would be the features of a literature written when literature is already finished.
The text, delivered orally at the first presentation of Camila Sosa Villada’s 2019 novel, works as a timely and evocative long review, focusing on the author’s profound reconfiguration of the canonic ...representations of the transvestite universe within the Latin American context. The focus, here, falls on language, the mischievous language of the protagonists that, intertwining transphobic testimony and baroque imagination, fictionally reconfigures the limits of the real.
Mario Vargas Llosa’s work explores the structures and mechanisms of power, either political or social, the Peruvian writer constantly placing his characters in the complex context of a world ...dominated by violence. But violence does not always guarantee success, on the contrary, it often brings about loneliness and rejection of some of his major protagonists either by their friends and family or, at times, by the entire community they live in and wish to represent. All these can be analyzed in his novels centered upon contemporary historical issues, such as The
(1984) and
(1993), where the central characters have to face death and to find the most adequate answer to the challenge of various violent forces. The real Peru is turned into a symbolic domain of fear and mystical practice, suggesting a new kind of fictional reality, expressing a society mentally blocked within its own traditions and practically unable (or unwilling) to get over them.
This article analyses literary representations of Vilnius as a Central and Eastern European city, whose space becomes the field where the memory of many national traditions can be observed. The ...analysis was conducted on the basis of two novels by Lithuanian writers, i.e. A Lithuanian in Vilnius by Herkus Kunčius and A Vilnius poker by Ričardas Gavelis, as well as the works of Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-Jewish author writing in Russian, i.e. the novel The park of forgotten Jews and the autobiographical-memoir prose Dream about vanished Jerusalem. The conflict-generating aspect of memory is revealed in the works of Lithuanian writers. The city centre becomes a battlefield for the commemoration of one’s own tradition and a sphere of action against the tradition of the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.
This article analyses literary representations of Vilnius as a Central and Eastern European city, whose space becomes the field where the memory of many national traditions can be observed. The analysis was conducted on the basis of two novels by Lithuanian writers, i.e. A Lithuanian in Vilnius by Herkus Kunčius and A Vilnius poker by Ričardas Gavelis, as well as the works of Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-Jewish author writing in Russian, i.e. the novel The park of forgotten Jews and the autobiographical-memoir prose Dream about vanished Jerusalem. The conflict-generating aspect of memory is revealed in the works of Lithuanian writers. The city centre becomes a battlefield for the commemoration of one’s own tradition and a sphere of action against the tradition of the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.
This article analyses literary representations of Vilnius as a Central and Eastern European city, whose space becomes the field where the memory of many national traditions can be observed. The analysis was conducted on the basis of two novels by Lithuanian writers, i.e. A Lithuanian in Vilnius by Herkus Kunčius and A Vilnius poker by Ričardas Gavelis, as well as the works of Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-Jewish author writing in Russian, i.e. the novel The park of forgotten Jews and the autobiographical-memoir prose Dream about vanished Jerusalem. The conflict-generating aspect of memory is revealed in the works of Lithuanian writers. The city centre becomes a battlefield for the commemoration of one’s own tradition and a sphere of action against the tradition of the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.
This article analyses literary representations of Vilnius as a Central and Eastern European city, whose space becomes the field where the memory of many national traditions can be observed. The analysis was conducted on the basis of two novels by Lithuanian writers, i.e. A Lithuanian in Vilnius by Herkus Kunčius and A Vilnius poker by Ričardas Gavelis, as well as the works of Grigory Kanovich, a Lithuanian-Jewish author writing in Russian, i.e. the novel The park of forgotten Jews and the autobiographical-memoir prose Dream about vanished Jerusalem. The conflict-generating aspect of memory is revealed in the works of Lithuanian writers. The city centre becomes a battlefield for the commemoration of one’s own tradition and a sphere of action against the tradition of the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.the Other, consisting of concealing, marginalising, and removing. Kanovich’s works focus on the issue of Jewish memory in Vilnius after the Holocaust, when the ghetto ceased to exist. Memory becomes present when literary heroes look back at their past. They meet in the park to revive it together. The narration allows us to see how one of the oldest parks in Vilnius is transformed intoa Jewish memorial site.
Almost unanimously considered nowadays as one of the greatest Latin American writers of the contemporary era, the Chilean Roberto Bolaño put into question, in his well-known novel
(1998), the ...structure and meanings of journey. Seen not only as the characters’ capacity to move from one place to another, each journey described within this book acquires symbolic meanings, being in turn an intricate process of initiation or a personal quest of the protagonists. Nevertheless, journey, as seen in Bolaño’s fiction, also implies sometimes the idea of exile, a very specific exile within literature, the Chilean writer’s characters representing contemporary expressions of the great Homeric heroes or absolutely original embodiments of Joyce’s Ulysses himself.
O presente texto busca demonstrar como os escritores portugueses António Lobo Antunes e Mário Cláudio transformaram Luís de Camões em personagem de seus romances – As Naus (1988) e Os Naufrágios de ...Camões (2017), respectivamente –, enfatizando, ainda que de maneiras bastante divergentes, sua condição frágil e humana. Escrevendo a partir dos rastros e das lacunas da biografia camoniana – embora não deixando de modificá-la e até mesmo hibridizá-la a outros contextos, como em As Naus –, os dois exploram diferentes possibilidades na figura de Luís de Camões, destruindo a aura que a leitura ideológica Salazarista impôs ao poeta e devolvendo-o ao uso comum. Nesse sentido, em ambas as obras, estamos diante de uma personagem camoniana profana que, mesmo dentro do âmbito ficcional – e talvez por isso mesmo –, contribui para repensarmos criticamente o lugar do poeta no Portugal de outrora e do presente, já que “não se trata somente de não se esquecer do passado, mas também de agir sobre o presente” (GAGNEBIN, 2006, p. 55).
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