{"title":"Espace fermé, espace ouvert : Proust à la recherche du familier","authors":"Sanda Badescu","doi":"10.7202/1101618ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1101618ar","url":null,"abstract":"The limited space of the room acquires unique significations in Proust. The work In Search of Lost Time is built on numerous oppositions that are also expressed at the level of space: the novelist reveals how a room can be either threatening or welcoming, depending on the imagination that is invested in it. Thus, the child narrator's bedroom, benevolent, can become a torment when night falls and he has to be alone, and the hotel room, threatening and disturbing, can turn into a quiet and reassuring space thanks to the intervention of the female character, namely the grandmother. The duality of the two sides, familiar and foreign, contains an antithesis but also a complementarity which are fundamental to the initiation and experience of the future writer.","PeriodicalId":200386,"journal":{"name":"L’espace à travers l’imaginaire littéraire","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130006671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"« L’immeuble que nous sommes » : la réfraction de l’espace dans le Journal de confinement de Wajdi Mouawad","authors":"Laura Brignoli","doi":"10.7202/1101619ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1101619ar","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the Journal du confinement, monologues that the French-speaking Lebanese writer, Wajdi Mouawad, published online when the pandemic interrupted his theatrical activity. The article analyzes the relationship to space maintained by some of the monologues, centred specifically on the dimension of the human residence, and on the dialogue between interior and exterior, between the self and the universe perceived in the spatio-temporal perspective. Through the Bachelardian teaching, we identify the function of the most meaningful spaces in the work, by considering, through the lexical choices, the echo-effects, the recurrence of places, themes or patterns, the semantic values that the author attributes to them, to determine the way in which confinement has modified the author's relationship with his own space and the means he has found to get out of the “cage.”","PeriodicalId":200386,"journal":{"name":"L’espace à travers l’imaginaire littéraire","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125923035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}