« Comment peut-on être français ? »
Creating a fictional foreign character (usually highly stereotyped) allows an author to use irony to demonstrate how he is detached from a country’s natives. Using the way in which Montesquieu goes about writing ‘Lettres Persanes’ (1721) as a starting point, we will look at the parallel narrative st...
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2014-05-01
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| description | Creating a fictional foreign character (usually highly stereotyped) allows an author to use irony to demonstrate how he is detached from a country’s natives. Using the way in which Montesquieu goes about writing ‘Lettres Persanes’ (1721) as a starting point, we will look at the parallel narrative strategies used by P. Daninos during the contemporary movement in his five-book series, whose protagonist is Major Thompson (1954-2000). We will equally spend time focussing on the particular kind of redraft proposed by C. Djavann in ‘Comment peut-on être français?’ (2006). We will observe how the so-called naïveté, brought to light via the spontaneous comments made by foreigners who are discovering France, allows authors to put in place a polyphony which transmits light-hearted or grating irony. Yet the character, who is both paradoxical and changeable to the ironic enunciation, gives rise to a complex game of detachment with regard to the opinions of the foreigner and of the French native. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9dc21b30769349b585bb1d52ad0ad4c22022-12-21T20:03:21ZengAssociation Portugaise d'Etudes FrançaisesCarnets1646-76982014-05-01110.4000/carnets.1166« Comment peut-on être français ? »Isabelle MoreelsCreating a fictional foreign character (usually highly stereotyped) allows an author to use irony to demonstrate how he is detached from a country’s natives. Using the way in which Montesquieu goes about writing ‘Lettres Persanes’ (1721) as a starting point, we will look at the parallel narrative strategies used by P. Daninos during the contemporary movement in his five-book series, whose protagonist is Major Thompson (1954-2000). We will equally spend time focussing on the particular kind of redraft proposed by C. Djavann in ‘Comment peut-on être français?’ (2006). We will observe how the so-called naïveté, brought to light via the spontaneous comments made by foreigners who are discovering France, allows authors to put in place a polyphony which transmits light-hearted or grating irony. Yet the character, who is both paradoxical and changeable to the ironic enunciation, gives rise to a complex game of detachment with regard to the opinions of the foreigner and of the French native.http://journals.openedition.org/carnets/1166Montesquieu (Charles de)Daninos (Pierre)Djavann (Chahdortt)foreignerirony |
| spellingShingle | Isabelle Moreels « Comment peut-on être français ? » Carnets Montesquieu (Charles de) Daninos (Pierre) Djavann (Chahdortt) foreigner irony |
| title | « Comment peut-on être français ? » |
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| title_full_unstemmed | « Comment peut-on être français ? » |
| title_short | « Comment peut-on être français ? » |
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| topic | Montesquieu (Charles de) Daninos (Pierre) Djavann (Chahdortt) foreigner irony |
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