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In the novels Les Sept solitudes de Lorsa Lopez by Sony Labou Tansi and Za by Raharimanana, grotesque poetics participate in the representation of an imaginary of the crisis that cannot be reduced to a socio-political satire. While the grotesque is a particularly apt mode of expression for expressing the disarray resulting from the anomie into which the post-independence world seems to have fallen, this one does however make the novel escape from a purely pessimistic or miserable discourse by opening up to an elsewhere. Insofar as it blurs established boundaries and puts Manichean norms in crisis, the grotesque appears in the novels studied as an attempt to overcome a dichotomous way of thinking about otherness, in favour of more ambivalent and shifting representations of the so-called postcolonial space.
Keywords: grotesque, ambiguïté, imaginaire de la crise, Sony Labou Tansi, Raharimanana
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Dino Buzzati’s most famous text, The Tartar Steppe (1940), is not simply the story of a young officer dispatched to do service in a remote fortress overlooking a vast northern desert, but a continuous oscillation between chronicle and fabulous realism. The narrative elicits a feeling of sharp malaise, a sense of anguish similar to the one conveyed by existentialist philosophy and Kafka’s fiction. By comparing Buzzati’s novel to its progenitors, this essay depicts the central experience of its main character as a journey to the afterlife where people, objects, and landscapes are but projections of a spiritual limbo.
Keywords: Absurd, Afterlife, Allegory, Existentialism, Magical Realism
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AbstractThis article explores the vast underside of György Kurtág's published work. The so-called flower motif that first appeared in the Bornemisza Péter mondásai [The Sayings of Péter Bornemisza] Op. 7 (1963-68) has proliferated and permeated a significant part of Kurtág's compositions. The impact of this type of motivic relationship is discussed in the context of Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky Op. 28 (1988-89) for string quartet. The information presented here is based on the author's detailed knowledge of the composer's working documents conserved in the György Kurtág Collection of the Paul Sacher Foundation.