Makala haya yanashughulikia maswahli ya udhanaishi katika fasihi ya Kiswahili. Makala yanalinganisha riwaya mbili, Mgeni ya mwandishi wa Kifaransa anayeitwa Albert Camus na Kichwamachi ya mwandishi wa Kiwahili, Euphrase Kezilahabi, na kuonyesha jinsi riwaya hizo zinayofanana na zinavyotofautiana. Kwa vile Kichwamaji inafanana na Mgeni, ni sahihi humwita Kezilahabi mwandishi ya udhanaishi, lakini kuna tofauti nyingi pia baina ya riwaya hizo mbili. Tofauti moja ni kwamba Albert Camus anamtazama mtu peke yake na hali yake iliyotengwa kabisa na watu wengine, na Kezilahabi, licha ya mtu peke yake, anaizingatia jamii nzima na hali yake vilevile. Tofauti hii ni tokeo la sifa za communalism katika mawazo Kiafrika ya kimapokeo yanayotilia mkazo jamaa na jami, siyo mtu peke yake. / This article analyses and compares the the two writings Kichwamaji by Euphrase Kezilahabi and L´etranger by Albert Camus. Written in the tradition of existentialism, the two writings have many similarities but also differ in some important aspects. While Camus sees the individual just by itself, Kezilahabi also includes the whole family and is writing with it in the tradition of the african communalism.

Pour Albert Camus, la littérature était à la fois une activité essentielle à son bonheur et un objet de réflexion. Afin de saisir quelle conception de la littérature et quelle vision du rôle de l’écrivain se dégagent de son oeuvre, ce mémoire aborde dans un même mouvement ses deux principaux essais, Le Mythe de Sisyphe et L’Homme révolté, et une pièce de théâtre, Caligula. Notre premier chapitre consiste dans la recherche de ce qui, pour Camus, fait de la création artistique une activité privilégiée dans l’horizon de la pensée de l’absurde et de la révolte. Dans le deuxième chapitre, les différents commentaires émis par la critique à propos de Caligula seront examinés. La pièce, malgré l’opinion dominante, ne raconte pas l’histoire d’un empereur absurde qui se révolte contre son destin. L’importance du thème de la création littéraire dans cette pièce a également été grandement sous-estimée. Enfin, le troisième chapitre de ce mémoire présente notre propre analyse de la pièce. La confrontation de la fiction avec la théorie révèle une grande concordance entre les deux aspects de l’oeuvre de Camus. L’accord n’est cependant pas parfait, et l’étude des points de friction découverts permet d’apporter des éclaircissements sur un des points les plus obscurs des essais de Camus : l’éthique du créateur placé dans une situation où il doit choisir entre tuer et mourir. / For Albert Camus, literature was both an activity crucial to his happiness and a study object. In order to understand what conception of literature can be found in Camus’ writings and the responsibilities of the writer that this definition implies, this memoir studies his two main essays, The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel, and one play, Caligula. Our first chapter consist in a research of what makes artistic creation an exceptional activity in the light of Camus’ thoughts on absurd on revolt. In our second chapter, the critics’ various commentaries about Caligula are examined. In spite of what is still the opinion of a majority of critics, the play is not the tale of an absurd emperor who would revolt against his destiny. Also, the theme of literary creation has not been sufficiently studied in that play, in which it plays a determinant role. Finally, the third chapter of this memoir presents our own analysis of the play. The confrontation of fiction and theory reveals a great similarity between the two aspects of Camus’ writings. However, the match is never perfect, and the study of the friction points allows us to shed light on one of the most obscure part of Camus’ essays: the ethic of the creator placed in a situation where he must kill or be killed.

Zugl.: Basel, Univ., Diss.

Cette étude montre comment Albert Camus et Tawfik Al-Hakim, deux dramaturges appartenant à deux cultures différentes, se sont servi, chacun à sa manière, de la parole, pour défendre la liberté dans leurs théâtres. La thèse comprend quatre parties. Partant d'un panorama biographique qui permettra de situer les deux dramaturges dans le contexte social et littéraire de leur temps, nous passerons, dans la deuxième partie, à une analyse du thème de la liberté dans le corpus. A travers une analyse textuelle des pièces traitées, nous découvrirons, dans la troisième partie, comment la parole a été instituée en système de tyrannie. En dénonçant une telle stratégie des régimes totalitaires, les deux dramaturges ont défendu la liberté de parole délibérément écrasée par les tyrans de tous les temps. Nous réfléchirons enfin sur le double jeu de la parole dans les deux théâtres. En y examinant le cas des personnages-prisonniers, nous mettrons en évidence comment la parole peut être aussi bien un moyen de liberté qu'un moyen d'enfermement. Se servir des ressources du théâtre pour être la voix des sans-voix ; plaider en faveur de tous les opprimés sur la terre pour leur rendre la justice et la liberté qu'ils ont perdues, c'est le souci commun de Camus et d'Al-Hakim. / This study shows how Albert Camus and Tawfik Al-Hakim, two playwrights belonging to two different cultures, used speech, each to his manner, to defend freedom in their theatres. The thesis includes four parties. Starting with a biographical panorama that will allow situating the two playwrights in their social and literary time, we shall pass, in the second party, to an analysis of the theme of the freedom in the corpus. Through a textual analysis of studied plays, we shall discover, in the third party, how speech was instituted in totalitarian systems. By a denouncing such strategy of totalitarian regimes, the two playwrights defended the freedom of speech crushed by the tyrants of all the times. We shall reflect finally on the double set of speech in the two theatres. By examining the case of the figures-prisoners, we shall show how speech can be both a means of freedom that one way of confinement. Use the resources of the theater to be the voice of the voiceless, to plead in favor of all the oppressed on the earth to do them justice and freedom that they have lost, is the common concern of Camus and Al-Hakim.

Cette étude tente d’apporter une analyse comparée et détaillée des réflexions d’Albert Camus et d’Arthur Koestler ayant un rapport avec cette volonté de défendre l’homme oppressé. Notre apport littéraire à travers cette analyse est de travailler en profondeur sur les textes de Koestler, d’en dégager les particularités lexiques et stylistiques, de les rapprocher de celles de Camus, d’en tirer une analyse subtile et minutieuse de la pensée de l’auteur hongrois, déplorablement méconnu, et de montrer comment deux intellectuels d’origines différentes et de langues d’expression différentes peuvent mener un même combat, avoir les mêmes influences littéraires, les mêmes « ennemis », les mêmes doutes et la même passion. / This study tries to bring a comparative and detailed analysis of the reflections of Albert Camus and Arthur Koestler having a relation with this will to defend the oppressed man. Our literary contribution through this analysis is to work in depth on Koestler 's texts, to identify its lexical and stylistic peculiarities, to bring them closer to those of Camus, to draw from them a subtle and minute analysis of the thought of the " A Hungarian author, deplorably misunderstood, and to show how two intellectuals of different origins and different languages of expression can lead the same struggle, have the same literary influences, the same "enemies", the same doubts and the same passion.

LÉtranger e Le Mythe de Sisyphe fazem parte do que Camus nomeou de ciclo do absurdo,no qual se unem sob esse mesmo tema a escrita literária e a reflexão filosófica. O absurdo é essencialmente definido como um divórcio do homem com o mundo, mas encontramos no percurso filosófico do autor uma noção anterior a essa, as núpcias. A análise de todos os textos anteriores ao ciclo do absurdo nos mostra, porém, que núpcias e absurdo sempre fizeram parte da reflexão camusiana. Essas duas noções opostas sempre conviveram juntas, formando o que chamamos de o avesso e o direito, ideia que se reflete no título da primeira recolha de ensaios do autor. O objetivo dessa dissertação é, através de todos os escritos anteriores à narrativa, definir o avesso e o direito como um tema fundamental para a escritura de LÉtranger, onde se conjugam as núpcias e o absurdo, a literatura e a filosofia. / LÉtranger and Le Myth de Sisyphe make part of what Camus named as the absurd cycle, where the literary writing and the philosophical reflection are joined together under the same theme. The absurd is essentially definite as a divorce of man with the world, but we meet in the authors philosophical course a previous notion to it, the nuptials. The analysis of all former texts to the absurd cycle, show us, nevertheless, that nuptials and absurd always were part of camusian reflection. These two opposite notions always lived together, shaping what we call the wrong side and the right side, the title of the authors first reunion of essays. The purpose of this dissertation is, through the all writings written before the narrative, definite the wrong side and the right side as a fundamental theme to the scripture of LÉtranger, where the nuptials and the absurd, the literature and philosophy are joined together.

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La notion d'équilibre est, pourrait-on dire, quasi intrinsèque à la pensée de Camus; dans son univers, Némésis en est la gardienne. Or, cette idée d'équilibre me semble faire cruellement défaut à l'époque qui est la nôtre, au sens d'écart entre différents statuts sociaux, mais aussi au sens d'inconséquence, d'inadéquation entre, par exemple, croyances et faits, entre dires et gestes, pensées et actions. Nos sociétés occidentales, trop souvent fondées sur des rapports de force, constituent un théâtre tout indiqué pour les faux-semblants, les trompe-l'oeil et autres attitudes ostentatoires. Évidemment de tels clivages ne constituent pas une nouveauté historique. Or, j'ai compris à travers Camus que ces maux de société sont exacerbés par les séparations qu'entraîne un mode de vie déséquilibré, c'est-à-dire tenté par la perfection ou obnubilé par le pouvoir, que cette vie soit régie par le réel ou gouvernée par l'idéel. Car, et c'est ce que je comprends dans L'envers et l'endroit et L'exil et le royaume, idéel et réel sont deux absolus qui poussent ceux et celles qui y obéissent à délimiter les espaces, à ériger des murs, réels ou imaginaires, pour éloigner, rejeter, voire nier, ce qui ne leur semble pas désirable. Pour que la vie prenne forme, il faut donc rompre avec ces tentations d'absolu, réunir l'idéel et le réel, en essayant non pas de les fusionner, mais bien de les équilibrer, sans quoi on se condamne à la facilité, à l'illusion, à ce que Camus appelle une vie par procuration. C'est en tout cas ce que me donnent à lire les deux textes de Camus que j'ai retenus, sorte de plaidoyers en faveur de cette irréductible dualité unissant l'un et l'autre, relation certes désespérante par les conflits qu'elle suscite, mais seule garante de véritable progrès.

Thesis advisor: Kevin Newmark / This dissertation constitutes a systematic literary study of the image of the mother in Camus’s works. The study is twofold: it represents 1) a reconstruction of the story of the image of the mother through the analysis of the image’s manifestations and meanings and 2) a reading of Camus’s oeuvre through the lens of this image. In this dissertation, the image of the mother is approached as a unique entity that 1) has its distinctive parameters, inner logic, language, manifestations, and levels of meaning, 2) manifests a tendency to remain central, and 3) leads an uninterrupted existence throughout the entire oeuvre. The narrative unfolding of the image of the mother repeats Camus's progression through his project and shows an intimate connection to the problematics of the self and the expression of emotion. Paralleling the twists and turns of Camusian creation, the existence of the image of the mother in the texts remains dual: embodied and hidden. Hence, the analysis of the sequence of the image’s perceptible forms – i.e., the mothers who appear in different works, in particular the mother of “Entre oui et non” (L’Envers et L’Endroit), Mme Meursault (L’Etranger), the mother of Jan (Le Malentendu), Mme Rieux (La Peste), and Catherine Cormery (Le Premier Homme) – is supplemented by an account of the image’s less perceptible forms – i.e., veiled presences, echoes, traces, and avatars. The narrative is not only cumulative, it has a specific direction. As the story of the image of the mother unfolds, moving from text to text, from one manifestation to another, the image of the mother is gradually unveiled as a living symbol, the Mother-Christ – a figure of conciliation of the living and the symbolic and a point of convergence of the vertical and the horizontal. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures.

Uppsatsen jämför Kamel Daouds Fallet Meursault och Albert Camus Främlingen ur de tre perspektiven berättarteknik, postkolonialt tänkande och livsåskådning. Syftet med jämförelsen är att se vilka likheter och skillnader som finns mellan verken, och då i första hand hur Fallet Meursault förhåller sig till Främlingen. Uppsatsen utgår från en komparativ metod utefter de aspekter som anges i syftet. Resultatet visar att Daouds Fallet Meursault i hög grad anspelar på CamusFrämlingen och kan ur ett postkolonialt perspektiv beskrivas som en form av writing back samtidigt som Daoud livsåskådningsmässigt kommer att ligga mycket nära Camus.