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In his books, Philip Roth could be seen to tell of a quest for a lost history that would weave individuals back into their time and place. Roth addresses two outstanding issues : what it means to be a Jew, and the true nature of an American identity where heroism hinges on conformity and the status quo, and where one turns to one's faith to find solace. Indeed, Jews living in America today are disconnected from the historic sufferings that made their people, regardless of religious or spiritual considerations. Roth might be seen as narrating the transition between the chains of yesteryear to today's freedom, redefining his characters' identities in the process.
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AbstractThis article proposes to shed new light on the complex relationship between the novel and the dramatic text through an analysis of three contemporary French prose texts: Benoît Duteurtre's Les malentendus, Lydie Salvayre's La conférence de Cintegabelle, and Éric Chevillard's L'euvre posthume de Thomas Pilaster. This article demonstrates how these works represent three very different possibilities of incorporating features of drama into a narrative text, emphasizing the production of certain effects of theatricality in the novel and the signification of this textual heterogeneity. The study of each of these texts reveals the complexity of this hybrid combination of narrative and dramatic texts, as well as the originality of these three particular works which place the theatre at the heart of the novel.
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Far from being opposed one to the other, the dignity of the person and the primacy of the common good do in fact imply one another reciprocally. This is chiefly what the present article attempts to bring out.
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