Imagination of the Element of Soil in Andre Gide's the Immoralist

مطالعات زبان و ترجمه

Article 4, Volume 48, Issue 1, April 2015, Pages 89-113   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/lts.v48i1.48273

Authors

Sara Soroosh; Negar Mazari^* ; Tahereh Khamneh Bagheri

Department of French, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

This paper tends to investigate Immorality written by Andre Gide, famous French writer of the 20th century. This research studies imagines of soil element in the Immorality which is seen frequently in reverie of characters in this book. We show how author’s point of view and imagination result in speculations subject to this element, creating images to show internal spiritualities of characters in this fiction. This paper tends to study imagination of the writer through his reveries and created images on soil element. There are some images used in this work subject to the above element and it is evidence on dualistic vision of Gide. This paper studies unconscious tendencies and the reveries appeared frequently in writer’s consciousness. Toward this goal, we use Gaston Bachelard's literary criticism approach. Based on this, literary images on soil element let us recognize speculation of Gide.

Keywords

Gide; Bachelard; Reverie; Soil; Hardness; Paste; Softness

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