Challenge of the isolationist hero in the face of modern life: Discourse and narrative analysis of Jalal Al-e Ahmed's The Cursing of the Land novel and Le Clézio's The Interrogation

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Département de français. Faculté des langues et littératures étrangères. Université de Téhéran. Téhéran. Iran

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The isolationist hero in the romantic work has a bright front. The Romantic hero explores the inside by exploring the world and contacting nature. This action is not necessarily in the face of modernity, but rather reflects the nostalgia of humanity far removed from its roots and nature. In the twentieth century, under the influence of writers like Proust and Joyce, the hero's isolation and introspection again came into being, which was quite different from romantic isolation. Here, the quest for identity in the modern world becomes a major challenge for the hero and writer. In this article, we seek to elucidate the style of isolation of the hero with the modern world and to show how isolation has enabled a resistance to the modern world and its imposed values, by examining the narrative and enunciative analysis of the two novels, Cursing of the Land by Al-e Ahmad and the Interrogation by Le Clézio.

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Research in Contemporary World Literature
Volume 24, Issue 2
February 2020
Pages 523-542

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