Under the deep impression of the 20th century’s worst excesses and sheer horror, Robert Merle, an engaged, humanist novelist, comes to question the humanity of man. As a popular novelist he imprints this reaction on ...

This article juxtaposes two strains of “the imagination of crisis” that manifest in the poetic practice of two contemporary francophone writers – the Michel Houellebecq (French) and the Colette Nys-Mazure (Belgian). ...

The aim of the article is to show that despite the apparent pessimism of the narration, reflecting the society in crisis, Michel Houellebecq’s narratives also provide valuable insights into how these crises can be overcome, ...

Rolland Dubillard’s House of Bones is openly situated in the wake of “rhapsodic dramaturgy” which challenges the constraints of the canonical form that Szondi has defined as “absolute drama”. Not being based on a great ...

The purpose of this article is to analyze different aspects of the crisis present in the play entitled The King, the Rat and the King’s Fool by Matéi Visniec. In this grotesque play, we move from a crisis of the monarchy, ...

This article – focusing on five selected plays by contemporary African playwrights, until now sparsely analyzed – offers a hermeneutic study about the crisis of family relationships. After presenting the difficulties ...

The aim of this contribution is to answer the question of why in Jardin maures [Moorish Gardens], a collection of short stories written by a French writer and painter of the colonial era, Aline Réveillaud de Lens (1881-1925), ...

The article deals with the image of crisis as it is presented in Rachilde’s autobiographical text Dans le puits, written during the First World War. The book offers an insight into the author’s perception of the war, of ...

Recent work by science historians has shown that environmental awareness is not unique to our “reflexive modernity”. As early as the 15th century, human agency was envisaged as a factor of change in various climate theories ...