Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
This paper analyses the way politics, society and the representation of speech is structured in Le goût des jeunes filles, Dany Laferrière’s fourth novel. How do the events told and the disorganised narration itself symbolise the unspeakable? Moreover, how does the characters’ speech rebuild the meaning of existence, and how does Laferrière see the future? Chaos, madness, all that overtakes or destroys the norm, anchors fiction in an attempt to reorganize reality and the imaginary.
Recommended Citation
Courcy, Nathalie
(2004)
"Le goût des jeunes filles de Dany Laferrière : du chaos à la
reconstruction du sens,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 63:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol63/iss1/6
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