Pierre Loti and André Malraux: Irony and Tragedy of French Writers in Asia Cover Image

Pierre Loti et André Malraux : ironie et tragédie des écrivains français en Asie
Pierre Loti and André Malraux: Irony and Tragedy of French Writers in Asia

Author(s): Giovanni Salvagnini Zanazzo
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: Pierre Loti; André Malraux; irony; tragedy; image of the Other

Summary/Abstract: The essay analyses, in the novels Madame Chrysanthème (1887) by Pierre Loti and La Condition humaine (1933) by André Malraux, the strategies of representation and comprehension of cultural Alterity from these French writers, and their effects on the register of the text. In particular, the ironic mode will be distinguished from the tragic mode. In this sense, the difference between the auto-diegetic statute of Lotian narrator, and the polyphony of characters who animate Malraux’s novel has also been underlined.

  • Issue Year: 9/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 38-49
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French