Le livre des fuites, de J.M.G. Le Clézio e a permanência do romance

Abstract

This article proposes to reflect on the persistence of the novel as a literary genre adaptable to its own time. Le livre des fuites, published in 1969, is part of the first phase of the literary output of Franco-Mauritian writer J.M.G. Le Clézio. The book explores the themes of language and of a kind of dialogical writing suitable to register the existential crisis of an author who puts into question the function of literary art. The theoretical framework in use here borrows from works by Bakhtin (2019), Robbe-Grillet (1969), Walter Benjamin (1994) and others.