On the (literary) consequences of migration: Gaël Faye’s novel Petit Pays Cover Image

Sur les conséquences (littéraires) de la migration : Petit Pays de Gaël Faye
On the (literary) consequences of migration: Gaël Faye’s novel Petit Pays

Author(s): Ramona Maliţa
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Fiction
Published by: Universitatea »Babes Bolyai« Cluj - Facultatea de St. Economice si Gestiunea Afacerilor
Keywords: auto-fiction; contemporary literature; Doric novel; Francophonie; Gaël Faye; Ionian novel; migration; Petit Pays novel;

Summary/Abstract: The theme of migration is a constant feature of contemporary Francophone literature. Published in 2016, Gaël Faye’s novel Petit Pays is one of them and is questioning about an identity space populated by expatriation, deterritorialisation, alienation and loss of identity. We have analysed the novel from the aesthetic point of view as well, and we have concluded that Petit Pays falls under the category of Ionic novels at the Doric insertions. The critical and aesthetic model applied has been proposed by Nicolae Manolescu in this famous essay Noah’s Ark, published in ’80 of the last century.

  • Issue Year: XVII/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 103-130
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: French