Commitment in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, Contre-enquête (2013)
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2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
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This research paper studies James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man (1916) and Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, Contre-enquête (2013). The
purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the aspects of commitment of the two
writers through their respective novels and therefore to establish a link between
their ideas and positions through a comparative study. The main focus of this
work is on the authors’ denunciation of religious oppression and domination in
their home countries. Furthermore, this analysis will shed light upon some
historical events that characterized Ireland and Algeria which evidently
impacted the writers into the production of their works. To achieve this goal,
this work will be based on Sartre’s theory of Commitment developed in his book
What is Literature? (1948). Despite the differences between the two writers’
social, cultural and religious backgrounds there exist many similarities between
them. Joyce and Daoud are both good examples of committed writers and their
novels reflect the notion of literary commitment.
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30cm ; 69p.
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches