QUELQUES ASPECTS DU SYMBOLISME DU FEU DANS LES FOUS DE BASSAN D’ANNE HEBERT
QUELQUES ASPECTS DU SYMBOLISME DU FEU DANS LES FOUS DE BASSAN D’ANNE HEBERT

Summary/Abstract: The disappearance of the two cousins Nora and Olivia Atkins on the night of 31st of August 1936 plunges the small community of Griffin Creek into despair and doubt. Consumed already by unlawful secrets and desires, the entire community sinks into heavy silence. But since it is impossible to quiet the cries of women taken by the sea, the shores of Griffin Creek are haunted: voices long forgotten travel with the waves, rise up from the sea foam and creep into the abandoned houses and the souls of men. The charactersř lives are dictated by the turmoil of the elements, by the water turned into a sanctuary for women, by the air of Griffin Creek, which drives men into insanity, and by the earth, which symbolizes these womenřs fruitfulness. The fire takes shape as the presence of divinity, but it also materializes evil, becoming a symbol of lust and malice. By reestablishing the symbolic nature of the elements, Anne Hebert sizes a primordial sacred which allows her to name and explore the passions and desires of her characters.

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