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Pour Milan Kundera, la question de l'identité est une des interrogations essentielles autour desquelles s'articule un roman. Le romancier tente de cerner la matière en explorant les thèmes existentiels qui y sont relies. Ces thèmes sont à leur tour éclaires sous divers angles par ce que l'auteur appelle des « motifs ». Nous avons axe notre étude sur l'un de ces motifs, celui du miroir, à travers lequel l'auteur saisit de plus près « l'énigme du moi ». L'analyse typologique de ce motif dans les dix romans de Kundera nous amène à reconnaitre, chez les personnages, deux attitudes fondamentales vis-à-vis de leur identité: la première consiste à s'y accrocher, ce qui entraine le mal-être des personnages, la deuxième, à s'en détacher, ce qui engendre une …
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AbstractIn the Francophonie, feelings of belonging—or not belonging—to a group have so many variables that we must question whether we want to understand how discourse about literature works from a pragmatic point of view, one that relates the production of texts to the context in which they are read. These relationships are particularly important since Francophone literatures are the only ones in North America that have not reversed the dialectic of the centre and the periphery in their favour. In this context, the issue of their status, or their designation, if you prefer, cannot be avoided. Francophone literatures have been designated regional, peripheral or minor, in turn. But the concept of a minor literature, in the sense used by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, is an odd amalgam of some of Franz Kafka's ideas about literatures then emerging and his situation as a Jewish writer living in Prague and writing in German. This article discusses this concept as well as the notion of a little literature (kleine Litteratur) put forward by Kafka and later by Milan Kundera, a notion to which it seems necessary to add that of minority literature in order to point out some common elements but also some disparities in the situation of North American Francophone literatures.
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