The <i>pop rock</i> and poetic writing in Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio’s <i>Voyages de l’Autre Côté</i>

Authors

  • Érica Milaneze UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista/Araraquara - SP

Keywords:

Le Clézio, Contemporary literature, Hybrid forms, French literature, Pop culture,

Abstract

Contemporary literature disrupts the frontiers between erudite culture and mass (or pop) culture, and creates hybrid forms that co-exit within the text. In the novel Voyages de l’autre cote (1975) by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, pop rock songs cradle the fairy Naja Naja and her friends’s journeys in their search for the “other side”. Therefore, the saturation of the poetic writing with pop music seems to help release imagination, and predisposes the characters to cope with a sensitive infinity.

Issue

Section

Literary genders: hybrid forms