Conflit Identitaire Et Réconciliation Dans Origines D’amine Maalouf / Identity Conflict And Reconciliation In Origins By Amine Maalouf

Résumé: In the present article, the author recounts the saga of a family in the Levant and, more specifically, that of his paternal grandfather Boutros. This story involves the complexity of Lebanon clash sees on its soil different cultures, religions, and the discovery of the West through moving characters to explore their legends, their tragedies and joys and evoke their community affiliations, religious, national and cultural. These characters are sometimes designed as mystical beings or Freemasons, sometimes as teachers or traders; they have the fever of adventure in the blood when they cultivate the passion of exile or nomadism. A priori, it is in the critical prose that fits the test Origin Amine Maalouf, in which the author deals with modesty and restraint family destiny dispersed between several geographic eras, from Cuba to New York, to Beirut to the villages of the Mount Lebanon to France. It is mostly a quest, a philosophical question, "Where I come from " and "who am I? » An approach to the question of identity, its construction and its natural vocation for research on identity origins cannot determine the true personality of the being through reconciliation with the other to find some kind of inner peace.

Publié dans la revue: Traduction et Langues