LITERARY MYTH IN THE DESERT NOVEL OF LE CLÉZIO Cover Image

MITI LETRAR TE ROMANI SHKRETËTIRA I LE CLÉZIO
LITERARY MYTH IN THE DESERT NOVEL OF LE CLÉZIO

Author(s): Shejnaze Ajdini-Murtezi, Besa Saliu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: University of Tetova
Keywords: Le Clézio;myth;literature;history;universal;

Summary/Abstract: Today the term myth and mythology is quite current and is showing a significant changein the field of academic knowledge. Mythos represents the intrigue or development of afactual history, a term that tells stories that concern God or any other deity. Especially inFrance, myth is a very important issue in the field of literary studies. According to MirceaEliade: The myth tells a sacred story, links an event that happened in the initial time, thewonderful start time During 1950s, Roland Barthes published a series of semiotic analyzesof modern myths, and summed up their creativity in the book Mythologies. To understandliterary myth in the novel Désert, one should analyze the intersection of the stories that appearin this novel.The first is the story of Morocco's liberation efforts by the French army, the failure ofthe holy war against Christians, and the second story is the appearance of new life of Lallahow is born in the desert and its immigration to France to return to end to its place and roots.What intrigues us is the process of forming the desert myth in the creative spirit of Le Clézioand the myth of the novel. The wilderness is a place of loneliness and drought, but at the sametime it is also a place where man can defeat his demons only through his spiritual strength.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 9-10
  • Page Range: 135-140
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Albanian