Sylvain Trudel et le réenchantement du monde
Sylvain Trudel and the Reenchantment of the World
Author(s): Jean-Pierre ThomasSubject(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: Quebec; symbol; syntheme; archetype
Summary/Abstract: Since the middle of the 1980s, French Canadian novelist Sylvain Trudel constantly puts his characters in contentious situations from which they try to escape by way of creating alternate worlds at the same time real and fantastical. This action brings these characters away from their trite everyday life and into a symbolic and mystical universe. The synthème seems to be feeding that symbolic frame. Through the child's point of view – which seems then to become some sort of secret language –, each object belonging to the realm of the profane becomes tinted with a sacred meaning. Synthème and symbol would then be considered as vehicles for the sacred, that which shows through Sylvain Trudel's novels.
Journal: Quêtes littéraires
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 151-159
- Page Count: 9
- Language: French