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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2013  
         
  Article:   THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ‘PUZZLE NOVEL’ AND THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN J.M.G. LE CLÉZIO’S AND GÖRAN TUNSTRÖM’S WORKS / LA CONSTRUCTION DU « ROMAN PUZZLE » ET LA QUÊTE IDENTITAIRE CHEZ J.M.G. LE CLÉZIO ET GÖRAN TUNSTRÖM.

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  Abstract:  The construction of the ‘puzzle novel’ and the search for identity in J.M.G. Le Clézio’s and Göran Tunström’s works. This paper presents the narrative techniques used by J.M.G. Le Clézio and Göran Tunström in the construction of their respective novels. The mixture of autobiographical and autofictional elements as well as the intertextual references to music and painting represent some of the key features of the ‘puzzle’ or ‘oratorio’ novels. Always oscillating between birth and death, atavism and imagination, fracture and continuity, the characters find themselves on the quest for a true identity, hidden between fragments of childhood memory and self-created images of the past.

Keywords: autobiography, autofiction, memory, intertextuality, childhood, passage, fracture, identity.

 
         
     
         
         
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