Meaning despite ambiguity: discourse of narrator and character in Bernanos’ Monsieur Ouine
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| Field | Value | |
| Title | Meaning despite ambiguity: discourse of narrator and character in Bernanos’ Monsieur Ouine | |
| Creator | Peeters, L. | |
| Description | The authenticity, even reality, of spiritual and imaginative experience has in recent years been put to a severe test by the human sciences. The work of Bernanos has this theme at its core. The character of Monsieur Ouine, especially seems to be a predecessor of many a deconstructionist critic. He submits a young boy to what can be called a counter-initiation whereby all meaning ceases to have any importance at all. At first glance there seems to be a marked resemblance between the style of the narrator and that of the discourse of Ouine, but a careful reading reveals in the narration a rhythm and the existence of a dense network of images which constitute the coherence of the work and point to an incarnational conception of language. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 1989-05-07 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/lit.v10i3.836 | |
| Source | Literator; Vol 10, No 3 (1989); 55-72 Literator; Vol 10, No 3 (1989); 55-72 2219-8237 0258-2279 | |
| Language | eng | |
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