Hybridity in Red Steppe by J. Kessel: Limit or Complementarity? Cover Image

L’hybridité dans La Steppe rouge de J. Kessel : limite ou complémentarité ?
Hybridity in Red Steppe by J. Kessel: Limit or Complementarity?

Author(s): Rached Chaabene
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: hybridity; history; fiction; novella; initiation

Summary/Abstract: The Red Steppe of Joseph Kessel is a valuable work, insofar as it is mainly characterized by its generic hybridity. The six novellas oscillate between the biographical and autobiographical, between history and fiction, between the individual and the collective, between the current and the universal. A sort of juxtaposition and/or co-existence can be traced between the novella of Kessel and other literary genres such as the travelogue, the initiation story, the adventure story, the historical narrative and the fictional narrative. This interdiscursive report makes the historical text an open text, "a hybrid text."

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 56-64
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French