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- Title
La crise et les ruines dans Il était une ville de Thomas B. Reverdy.
- Authors
DASCÃLU, Ioana-Rucsandra
- Abstract
Thomas B. Reverdy's novel is inspired by the subprime mortgage crisis which hit the north- American city of Detroit in 2008, turning it into a space without future and without hope. «Au moment de leur chute, toutes les civilisations ressemblent à des canards sans tête», writes the author. In this upside down world tries to integrate Eugène, a French engineer working in the car industry, who meets Candice, a waitress in the Dive In Bar and with whom he falls in love. The symbols of this novel are very strong: Charlies's disappearance, followed by a desperate investigation enhances the depression, without escape: the child that Candice expects at the end of the novel is the best illustration for the motto of the city: «Speramus meliora, cineribus resurget» - (tr. "We hope better days, may it rise from ashes"). It is necessary for the city to continue existing, thanks to love. In the XXIst century, Detroit, the city of technology, rediscovers this feeling as old as the world and rediscovers itself by its means. In my text I am interested by the description of the city, by the proportion between its image and the participation of the characters in the action of the novel, using an approach both literary and anthropological.
- Subjects
DETROIT (Mich.); SUBPRIME mortgages; AUTOMOBILE industry; PARTICIPATION; WAITSTAFF; LITERARY characters; HOPE; BOOK illustration
- Publication
Mélanges francophones, 2018, Vol 13, Issue 16, p107
- ISSN
1843-8539
- Publication type
Article