Rapports intertextuels et (re)constructions identitaires dans le roman "Bois rouge" de Jean-Marie Touratier
Intertextual connections and identity (re)constructions in the novel "Bois rouge" by Jean-Marie Touratier

Summary/Abstract: Published in 1993, the novel Bois rouge by Jean-Marie Touratier brings to life the history of the short-lived French colony of Brazil, the Antarctic France, whose existence, reduced to only five years (1555-1560), was described in the travelogues written in the 16th century by André Thevet ("Les Singularitez de la France Antarctique - The New Found World, or Antarctike") and Jean de Léry ("Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil – History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil"). Beneath the appearance of a simple story told by an ironic voice, sometimes even satirical towards the military leader of the French colony, the Knight of Malta Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon and his chaplain, André Thevet, future cosmographer of the kings of France, the novel delves into issues of great complexity, such as (the issue of) identity and the relationship to the Other (the American “savage”).

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