Du dialogue au dialogisme : enjeux du style dans Le mandat

Authors

Fortuné Nkonene-Benha, UOB Libreville (Gabon)

Abstract

This article takes an analytical look at the Ousmane Sembène’s novelistic prose: precisely he proposes a poetic and stylizing reading of Le mandat. First grasping the textual structure of this classical work from dialogue, we show its characteristics (psittacism of the characters, polemical exchanges under apparent dialectical interactions, presence of epistolary exchanges). In a second movement, the enunciative heterogeneity laid bare enables us to confirm a cultural hypotext that deeply works on the Sembenian literary language, putting it on a popular invoice. Finally, the analysis succeeds in identifying the “literal novel” as an aesthetic category and scriptural parade that the Senegalese writer forges to overcome the unavoidable tension arising from the face-to-face encounter between writing and the forms of the spoken word.

Recommended Citation

Nkonene-Benha, Fortuné (2023) "Du dialogue au dialogisme : enjeux du style dans Le mandat," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 100: No. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol100/iss1/13