...Hanan Elsayed Abstract This essay focuses on Kamel Daoud’s “response” to Albert Camus’s L’Étranger by highlighting the differences in and implications of their writing styles and narrative voices. Daoud’s narrative refigures the concept of the absurd and his linkage of Camus’s silences...

..., 1947 to 1953, and 1953 to 1962. The period from 1947 to 1953 opened with the founding of the Cominform and closed with Stalin's death. It climaxed with the absurd Affaire des blouses 12. This is covered in my work, French Communism in the Era of Stalin: The Quest for Unity and Integration (Westport, Ct...

... with the world in Mallarme's poetics is Jacques Ranciere's Mallarme, la politique de la sirene (Paris: Hachette, 1996). 6. Mallarme, (Euvres completes (1945), p.649. 448 MARY SHAW The highly ceremonious yet absurd Oxford and Cambridge readings executed by Mallarme of his own very obscure La Musique et les...

... absurd proportions in proving slavishly the Zhdanov philosophy of socialist realism, abandoning it only when personally stung in the Picasso portrait affair. He later repudiated the painting of Fougeron, but he initially contributed to its launching. He sang the praises of Zhdanov and championed Lyssenko...

..., ethicopolitical” (70) work on behalf of these groups. Farce is not (as some have argued) a hegemonic form illustrating through the absurdity of human foolishness the need for officially sanctioned morals; nor is it an amoral celebration of absurdity for its own sake (as some others have claimed). Pure Filth...

... when he was only twenty-two. These essays have as their backdrop a number of cities in North Africa and Europe-Algiers, Naples, Prague-and take the shape of a series of short meditations on poverty, existential isolation, and what Camus calls the "absurd simplicity of the world."4 The text titled...

... juge et une justification. » (DC I, 1156) Quant a la valeur potentielle du quotidien, toute la pensee philosophique camusienne en temoigne - depuis Le Mythe du Sisyphe dont Ie heros eponyme, embleme de l'homme absurde, s'avere superieur a son destin du fait que, « a chacun de ces instants », il « est...

... is certainly that of fabricating "orality" as his style of writing. 5. Derrida and Khatibi agree that within one language too translation takes place. 154 SOULEYMANE BACHIR DIAGNE Africa (Nakem in the novel) really was? That question is absurd? Indeed, it is the appeal to the very category of authenticity...

..., in a "Jirafa" column of April 1951 entitled "No era una vaca cualquiera." In this piece, published in Barranquilla's El Heraldo newspaper, the unexplained presence of a cow in the middle of a downtown traffic jam creates an absurd and carnivalesque atmosphere, which the young journalist juxtaposed to images...

... as true, even to the point of basing this belief on untrue explanations that we have imagined. As Montaigne comments, "De toutes les absurditez la plus absurde aux Epicuriens est desavouer la force et effect des sens" ["The most absurd of all absurdities for Epicureans is to deny the effective power...

... to his art above all else that he is unable to exist in the nlodern world, "carrying stoicisnl to the point of absurdity" (xxv). The anlateur bohenlian is a sort of weekend dabbler or tourist, who does not land in bohetnia due to economic or artistic necessity, but because he finds it an exciting...

..., l'effet est voisin de ce qui allait un peu plus tard s'appeler Realisme Magique. Absurde? Des motivations rudimentaires, une objectivation des sentiments (louer sa peur), des heros purement reactifs, absolument depourvus de toute responsabilite quant a leur sort, que l'accumulation des aventures et des...

... skepticism, see John Foley, Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt (Stocksfield: Acumen, 2008) 7-8. Foley refers to further discussions of the relationship between the absurd and skepticism in Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1979) 11-23, and Mitchell Gabhart, "Mitigated Skepticism...

..." from the movies, turning them instead into pointless absurdities, a stupid, frivolous, and, precisely, "childish" way to spend one's time. The second section, "Souvenirs des films," tracks the impact of different movements, genres, and periods in film history. Via a rigorous analysis of a few key...

..., cheating more than a bit h­ ere. To say Shit happens in the face of Ross s death allows me both to remember an encounter with him and to point to something more about the cultural and po­litic­ al effects of disruption and figural language that he explores in his work. The absurd inadequacy of my verbal...

... and rhetorically absurd: La situation, celIe du poete, reve-je d'enoncer, ne laisse pas de decouvrir quelque difficulte, ou du comique. aUn lamentable seigneur exilant son spectre de ruines lentes l'en- sevelir, en la legende et Ie melodrame, c'est lui, dans l'ordre jour- analier: lui, ce l'est, tout de meme, qui...

... Sdbados in Journal Critica, (May 12,1934): 5. 20. "[Borges was] a bookish man of our time who thought seriously about the absurdity of the world in which we live, but who refused to take it, or himself, seriously. Precisely for this reason, his comic side erupts often, and often unexpectedly, in even his...

... persists but can no longer be realized. 144 ENRIQUE GAVILAN A major part of the extraordinary complexity of the said work is that it is constructed in such a way that makes it impossible to be reduced to a set of propositions. To do this would imply not only absurd reductionism but also any attempt...

..., the only pieces pertaining to French literature outside Europe were a couple of articles on the Nobel prize winning poet, Saint-John Perse, a white Creole born in Martinique, a study of the place of absurd in Camus's La Peste (1974) and a book review of Luce Klein's Portrait de la ]uive dans la litterature...

... most students heard the promise. At the same time, it is fair to say that no one who has ever been in love or fantasized about being in love has failed to thrill at Proust’s exquisite descriptions of its excesses and ecstasies, its agonies and absurdities. In what follows, I focus on Swann’s Way...