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 ...

This article presents the main personality traits of Jean de Tinan and characteristics of his writing which is the notation of emotional crisis suffered by this prematurely died writer of fin-de-siècle. His desperate quest ...

After listening empathically to testimonies from surviving Tutsis (Into the Quick of Life, 2000), the French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld reversed the perspective by gathering recollections of the events from Hutu ...

The end of the 19th century in France is marked by several crises, including the social crisis and the crisis of literature. Under these circumstances, Georges Rodenbach wrote a multi-part poem Les Vies encloses, which in ...

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 study is to show how the Tunisian writer Yamen Manai, describes, in L’Amas ardent, the mechanisms of an environmental crisis coupled with a political crisis. He looks at it both with nostalgia for the ...

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), ...

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 ...