LOUCOS, BUFÕES, CEGOS E MANETAS: OS CONTADORES DE HISTÓRIAS DE TAHAR BEN JELLOUN
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.v0i13p91-101Keywords:
storyteller, francophone literature, madness, reterritorializationAbstract
Tahar Ben Jelloun’s storyteller is presented as a character that oscillates between past and present, oral and written, madness and wisdom. In three of the Moroccan writer’s novels the character-narrator of the storyteller multiplies himself and expresses the text’s polyphony, the character’s lack of balance, the insanity of his situation: exterritorial (BONN,1994), deterritorialized (DELEUZE and GUATTARI,1975), calling into question the truthfulness of the text (like in many contemporary works) and the world’s unity (which should be assured by the millenary labor of the tradition of the storyteller). The storyteller’s madness is due to the painfulness of exile, as well as to the power within the book and the story: no longer proprietor of the text, he becomes possessed by it. The maddened storyteller then becomes an exorcist in order to expel from himself and from the pages of his book the stories of the characters. Madness which is an essential condition for the “symbolic reterritorialization”.
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