Publication details
Terre promise – paradis perdu : désir et avatars d'un reve. Le Fou d’Amérique d’Yves Berger et Frontieres ou Tableaux d’Amérique de Noël Audet
| Title in English | Promised Land - lost paradise : desire and avatars of a dream. Le Fou d’Amérique by Yves Berger and Frontieres ou Tableaux d’Amérique by Noël Audet |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Ostium |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Yves Berger; Noël Audet; American dream; civilizational imaginary; happiness; limits; Apocalypse |
| Description | America haunts literary and cultural imaginations. The American dream of happiness faces repeated disappointments without questioning the desire of the recommencement, be it an individual or a collective adventure. The paper analyzes from this point of view the approaches of two authors and two novels, Yves Berger (Le Fou d’Amérique, 1983) and Noël Audet (Frontiees ou Tableaux d’Amérique, 1995). The comparison aims to cross a French perspective and a Quebecer one in a brief overview of two possible terms of a civilizational dream. |
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