Jean-François Durand shows the world of primeaval cultures of the colonised countries of Africa and Asia, the world fastly going back to the past at the end of the 19th century, presented by André Chevrillon, a traveller and writer, who tries to preserve the vanishing values, falsified with the ideology of the civilised mission of colonists from the beginning of the conquest, as a result of the acculturation of traditional values, religion, traditions and lifestyle of the conquered nations.
Keywords : colonization; Asian and African first cultures; acculturation; André Chevrillon
Magdalena Zdrada-Cok concentrates on the process of recalling the forgotten events form the childhood of Georges Perec, the Holocaust rescuer. A long time after the event, the writer as a mature man, tries to regain his memory in a direct way (by means of reconstructing the memories) and indirect way (creating the fiction of the Utopian state being a symbolic reminder of the Third Reich).
Keywords: Georges Perec; Holocaust; reconstruction of memories; utopia
Ewelina Szymoniak raises the issue of the engagement of the modern literature, presenting the two co-existing tendencies visible in the attitude of the Spanish writers, i.e. escapism from the reality in the name of the creative freedom and the conviction that leaving the up-to date social problems aside makes the writer guilty of being an accomplice to the abuse of the capitalistic system.
Keywords: twentieth-century Spanish novel; literary commitment; a contemporary intellectual
Vol. 24 No 2 (2023)
Publié: 2024-06-17
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