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Création et fonctionnement de l'atmosphère dans “Le Renégat” d'Albert Camus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

Paul A. Fortier
Paul A. Fortier*
Affiliation:
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
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Abstract

Analysis of descriptive passages in Camus's “Le Renégat” shows that the protagonist associated violence with a means of escape from his unpleasant surroundings in France. Fascinated by violence, he goes to convert the cruel inhabitants of Taghâsa. But on arriving at the town built of salt, excessively hot and violent, he is enslaved. After a time the protagonist freely adores the idol of Taghâsa, believing it to represent a universal and eternal principle of violence, thus becoming the Renegade. He kills the next Christian missionary to come to Taghâsa, but in a decor which negates, thematically, the universality and the eternity of the evil principle of violence which he adores. After this futile murder, the story ends with the Renegade's more futile repentance. The thematic structures of this short story seem to embody the same rejection of violence which can be found in the last section of L'Homme révolté. (In French)

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , May 1973 , pp. 484 - 495
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1973

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Notes

1 Essais (Paris: Gallimard, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1964), p. 5. Nous identifierons les citations subsequentes de cette oeuvre entre parentheses dans le texte de cet article, utilisant le sigle E suivi du numero de la page.

2 Germaine Bree, Camus (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1959), pp. 63–67.

3 Carnets, i (Paris: Gallimard, 1962), 28.

4 Carnets, n (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), 20.

5 On a tant ecrit au sujet des ceuvres de Camus que des indications bibliographiques dans une note a cet article ne sauraient etre qu'incompletes. Le lecteur soucieux deprecisions les trouvera dans Robert F. Roeming, Camus: A Bibliography (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1968).

6 Albert Camus, Theatre, Recits, Noucelles (Paris: Gallimard, Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1962), p. 1577. Les citations subsequentes de ce texte seront identifiers entre parentheses dans le corps meme de cette article, par le sigle T suivi du numero de la page.

7 Nous soulignons dans le passage cite les mots evoca-teurs de themes familiers, et les designons par le numero de la ligne oil ils apparaissent.