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Anne-Marie Reboul Díaz (ed.): L’artiste et son oeuvre dans la fiction contemporaine (Bruxelles, Peter Lang, Liminaires - Passages interculturels, 2021, vol. 46, 388 p., ISBN 978-2-8076-1593-9).

S. A. Steeman sheds light on the evolution of the detective figure in Detective Story. Cognition, ethos and pragma combine cleverly in his novels, creating new detective models. In this paper, we will analyze the modus operandi and, especially, cogitandi of three detective models, created by Steeman, who marked a milestone in the Whodunit history.  

This article proposes the study and analysis of three contemporary French language graphic novels dedicated to the representation of the asylum application procedure for exiled persons on French territory. Committed to current affairs, these graphic novels are fundamentally in-terested in reception, drawing attention to the need to improve the management of migrant populations on their arrival in Europe, in France. Prisonniers du passage (2019), Félicité (2019) and Village global (2019) trace, through a combination of text and drawing, the administrative and social difficulties faced by asylum seekers. The proposed analyses are approached in a perspective of dialogue with migration studies in social geography and the sociology of migration.

Speaking an additional language (AL) is one of the challenges that students face. The interactional skills required for communication, on the other hand, are not explicitly taught. In this paper, we examine nine paired interactions in an oral exam from a B1 level French (AL) course in this paper. The aim is to describe interactional strategies, specifically those that involve the use of oui, in order to identify students' learning needs. The findings confirm the polyfunctionality of oui, which is directly related to its position. Furthermore, we conclude that its overuse is a response to the learners' lack of other markers in their lexical repertoire as well as the characteristics of the assessment task.

Manuel Reina (1856-1905) was a cosmopolitan author who assimilated literary models from outside Spain through his translated and original texts. In the essay that follows, we study in an exhaustive manner a part of his production that has been forgotten by literary criticism, that is, his work as a translator; and, furthermore, we group together for analysis, following a chronological reading that ranges from the first to the last writings in his literary career, the poems by Manuel Reina that provide evidence of the reception of the new French lyric poetry, of his advance from Romantic postulates towards Parnassianism and Decadentism, and of his contribution to the modernist aesthetics.

One of Victor Cherbuliez’s most renowned novels is Le comte Kostia, of 1863. Years later, in 1936, a sentimental woman writer, Max du Veuzit, publishes L’étrange petit comte ou L’étrange fils du comte d’Uskow, a title that prompts that of Cherbuliez. It has been said that the storyline of Max du Veuzit’s little count was inspired by Lamartine’s Jocelyn. With the aim of verifying the exactitude of this supposition, our analysis will be supported by a comparative study, which will allow us to establish the analogies and differences between both novels, and will confirm our starting hypothesis: that Max du Veuzit’s novel is indeed inspired by Victor Cherbuliez’s storyline of Count Kostia.

Tempête is placed under the sign of temporality; the story takes place in the closed world of a Korean island, an original place without history or memory, which seems capable of swallowing up the darkest past. Sheltered from the blows of time, the characters engage in a quest for identity, at the end of which it will be possible for them to live in the present and envisage the future. Throughout the story, their existential experiences of temporality reflect their psychological evolution. We will examine the relationship to time of the characters – suffered and painful, or on the contrary synonymous with ecstasy – and will observe the passage from a temporality suffered to a reappropriation of time in a chosen mode.

* Au sujet du livre dirigé par Encarnación Medina Arjona (ed), Voyages tyranniques, paysages circéens (Paris, L’Harmattan, coll. La perspectiva textual, 2021, 167 p. ISBN: 978-2-343-21705-5).

This interview with the author Leïla Sebbar (1941) aims at taking a retrospective look with her, analyzing the conditions of her “coming to writing” as Hélène Cixous put it. The interview deals with varied aspects of the writing process revolving around three main axes: reading, writing and publishing. During this interview, relevant themes to Leïla Sebbar appear the exile, the absence of Arabic in her linguistic biography, but also the happiness of writing, alone or together, and that of tirelessly pursuing very original and special work.

La “crítica social” nos auxilia para evaluar lo positivo o lo negativo en la sociedad, tanto para individuos como para grupos, clases u otros agregados. Esta “crítica social” nos puede auxiliar para señalar problemas, conflictos o contradicciones sociales, para eventualmente proponer cambios, soluciones o salidas. En general, la utopía y la ideología son componentes prácticamente ineludibles de las ciencias sociales, en el punto de partida, aunque el rigor teórico y metodológico y una ética científica puedan ayudar a compensar la actitud valorativa que podría ostentar uno en un principio. En primer lugar, hay que dejar que sean preguntas, no certezas previas, las que guíen la investigación. Se necesita ejercer honestidad intelectual, autocrítica, autorreflexividad, vigilancia epistemológica. Son entonces dos los principales sentidos en los que se entiende la ciencia social crítica latinoamericana: por un lado, lo que hemos denominado “crítica social”, en la que partiendo de la historicidad del objeto de estudio y de enfoques enriquecidos con una aproximación histórica, a partir de la investigación empírica rigurosa se es capaz de mostrar los obstáculos y las contradicciones que impiden el desarrollo más pleno de los sujetos sociales y humanos. Por otro lado, en el sentido filosófico, original, de crítica como el conocimiento amplio y profundo de autores y textos, enriquecido a la vez con la acepción más moderna que toma en cuenta las condiciones históricas, materiales, de producción de tales textos.