This article posits friendship as the structuring motif of Les Chemins de la liberté. Thinking about the novel series as being essentially about friendship prompts a reassessment of its dialectic structure, the hazy presence of Nizan, and the novelistic outpouring of the final pages. From the shattering of an illusion to the dramatization of a deep friendship, the series offers various representations of friendship that convey the fear that one’s relationships with others will define one’s own self and one’s place in history.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-14357-4
EAN:9782406143574
ISSN: 2551-9093
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14357-4.p.0221
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 11-23-2022
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: French literature, literary sociabilities, literary history, novelistic poetics, cultural studies.